Contamination of potable water by enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli: qPCR based culture-free detection and quantification

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 74, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2292-2298

  Patel, C B ^a   Vajpayee, P ^a   Singh, G ^a   Upadhyay, R S ^b   Shanker, R ^a  

^a CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH   (India)

^b BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Enterotoxigenic E. coli; Potable water; Quantitative PCR

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

BIOASSAY; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DETECTION METHOD; DRINKING WATER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DILUTION; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TARGETING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INDIA; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; LT1 GENE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEWAGE; ST1 GENE; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER FLOW; WATER SUPPLY;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DRINKING WATER; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; INDIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEWAGE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER SUPPLY;

INDIA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 80755169439     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2011.07.022     Document Type: Article

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