Isolation and characterization of Bacteroides host strain HB-73 used to detect sewage specific phages in Hawaii

Water Research

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3714-3724

  Vijayavel, Kannappan ^a   Fujioka, Roger ^a   Ebdon, James ^b   Taylor, Huw ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacteroides host; E. coli; Enterococci; Phages; Sewage contamination

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGES; CONTAMINATION; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVERS; SEWAGE;

BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES HOST; E. COLI; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FECAL CONTAMINATION; HOST STRAIN; ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION; RECREATIONAL WATER; SEWAGE CONTAMINATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; BIOMARKER; COASTAL WATER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DETECTION METHOD; SEPARATION; SEWAGE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTEROIDES; COASTAL WATERS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEWAGE; STREAM (RIVER); UNITED STATES; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; ANALYSIS; BACTERIOPHAGE; FECES; GEOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; RECREATION; SALINITY; SWIMMING; VIROLOGY; WATER POLLUTION;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES SP.; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

FRESH WATER; SEA WATER; SEWAGE;

BACTERIOPHAGES; BACTEROIDES; FECES; FRESH WATER; GEOGRAPHY; HAWAII; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; RECREATION; SALINITY; SEAWATER; SEWAGE; SWIMMING; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 77953611099     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2010.04.012     Document Type: Article

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