Effects of fumigants on microbial diversity and persistence of e. coli o15:h7 in contrasting soil microcosms

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 3740-3748

  Ibekwe, A Mark ^a   Ma, J ^a  

^a U S SALINITY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis; Escherichia coli O157:H7; Methyl bromide; Methyl iodide; Microbial diversity; Persistence

Indexed keywords

DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157:H7; METHYL BROMIDE; METHYL IODIDE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; PERSISTENCE;

BROMINE; BROMINE COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS; CLAY; ELECTROPHORESIS; FUMIGATION; GELS; GENES; PATHOGENS; PESTICIDES; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIAL DNA; GENOMIC DNA; METHYL BROMIDE; METHYL IODIDE;

COLIFORM BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ELECTROKINESIS; FUMIGANT; LABORATORY METHOD; METHYL BROMIDE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROCOSM; PATHOGEN; PERSISTENCE; POLLUTION CONTROL; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL POLLUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CLAY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DORMANCY; EAE GENE; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O15 H7; GENE AMPLIFICATION; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; INCUBATION TIME; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROCOSM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLATE COUNT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA 16S GENE; RNA GENE; SANDY SOIL; SOIL FUMIGATION; SOIL MICROFLORA; STX1 GENE; STX2 GENE;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FUMIGATION; HYDROCARBONS, BROMINATED; HYDROCARBONS, IODINATED; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 80051784256     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.06.033     Document Type: Article

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