Hollow-fiber ultrafiltration and PCR detection of human-associated genetic markers from various types of surface water in Florida

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 4116-4117

  Leskinen, Stephaney D ^a   Brownell, Miriam ^a   Lim, Daniel V ^a   Harwood, Valerie J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLORIDA; GENETIC MARKERS; HOLLOW FIBER; MARKER GENES; MEMBRANE FILTRATIONS; MICROBIAL SOURCE TRACKING; PCR DETECTION; WATER TYPES;

MICROFILTRATION; ULTRAFILTRATION;

WATER FILTRATION;

BACTERIAL DNA; GENETIC MARKER;

ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; MEMBRANE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SURFACE WATER; ULTRAFILTRATION; VIRUS;

ARTICLE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ULTRAFILTRATION; UNITED STATES; PROCEDURES;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; DNA, BACTERIAL; FLORIDA; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ULTRAFILTRATION; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 77953628637     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00025-10     Document Type: Article

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