State of the art molecular markers for fecal pollution source tracking in water

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1341-1355

  Roslev, Peter ^a   Bukh, Annette S ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Fecal pollution; Host specific and host associated markers; Microbial risk assessment; Microbial source tracking (MST); mtDNA; Surface water quality

Indexed keywords

FECAL POLLUTION; HOST SPECIFIC AND HOST ASSOCIATED MARKERS; MICROBIAL RISK ASSESSMENT; MICROBIAL SOURCE TRACKING; MTDNA;

ANIMALS; DNA SEQUENCES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; RATING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURFACE WATERS; VIRUSES; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL; WATER QUALITY;

WATER POLLUTION;

DRINKING WATER; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOLECULAR MARKER; NUCLEIC ACID; WATER;

BACTERIUM; FECAL PELLET; GENETIC MARKER; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PATHOGEN; POLLUTANT SOURCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; VIRUS; WATER QUALITY;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTEROIDALES; BLOOD; CAT; CATTLE; COLIPHAGE; DOG; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; FECAL POLLUTION; FECAL POLLUTION SOURCE TRACKING; FECES; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; HORSE; HOST; HUMAN; INTESTINE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLLUTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROKARYOTE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHORT SURVEY; SWINE; VIRUS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, VIRAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; VIRUSES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 79952574163     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-010-3080-7     Document Type: Short Survey

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