Development and validation of a microbial source tracking marker for the detection of fecal pollution by muskrats

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 82-88

  Marti, Romain ^a   Zhang, Yun ^a   Lapen, David R ^a   Topp, Edward ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Muskrat specific fecal source; Real time PCR; Waterborne pathogens

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; DNA FRAGMENT; RNA 16S; SURFACE WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTEROIDALES; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECAL POLLUTION; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES CULTURE; GENE DOSAGE; MARKER GENE; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MICROBIAL SOURCE TRACKING METHOD; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MUSKRAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SAMPLING; WATERSHED;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BACTEROIDES; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CALIBRATION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; FECES; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REFERENCE STANDARDS; RIVERS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTION;

AVES; MAMMALIA; ONDATRA; ONDATRA ZIBETHICUS; SUIDAE;

EID: 80052380667     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: 18728359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2011.07.013     Document Type: Article

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