Temporal and spatial variability in culturable pathogenic vibrio spp. in Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, following hurricanes katrina and rita

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 5384-5393

  Nigro, Olivia D ^a   Hou, Aixin ^b   Vithanage, Gayatri ^a   Fujioka, Roger S ^a   Steward, Grieg F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA; CULTURABLE; DATA SETS; DETECTION LEVELS; KATRINA; LAKE WATERS; LOUISIANA; MAXIMUM VALUES; MOLECULAR ASSAYS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIABILITY; V. PARAHAEMOLYTICUS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO SPP; VIRULENCE GENE;

GENES; LINEAR REGRESSION; RNA; THERMAL LOGGING; TURBIDITY;

LAKES;

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIUM; BIOASSAY; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HURRICANE; LINEARITY; MAGNITUDE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PATHOGENICITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALINITY; SAMPLING; SHORE (NONMARINE); SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TURBIDITY; VIRULENCE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; COLD; DNA SEQUENCE; FLOODING; GENETICS; HEAT; HURRICANE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LAKE; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SALINITY; UNITED STATES; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

BASE SEQUENCE; COLD TEMPERATURE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CYCLONIC STORMS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FLOODS; HOT TEMPERATURE; LAKES; LOUISIANA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SALINITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN; LOUISIANA; UNITED STATES;

VIBRIO; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

EID: 79961039948     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02509-10     Document Type: Article

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