Bacteriophage lysis of enterococcus host strains: A tool for microbial source tracking?

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 10699-10705

  Purnell, Sarah E ^a   Ebdon, James E ^a   Taylor, Huw D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGLAND; ENTEROCOCCUS CASSELIFLAVUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FECAL MATERIALS; FECAL SAMPLES; FECAL SOURCES; HIGH SPECIFICITY; HOST STRAIN; HOST-SPECIFICITY; LOW COSTS; MICROBIAL SOURCE TRACKING; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATERS; PIG SAMPLES; UNITED KINGDOM; WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS;

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; BACILLI; MAMMALS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

BACTERIOPHAGES;

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; CATTLE; FECES; HOMINID; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LYSIS; TRACKING; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOLYSIS; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS CASSELIFLAVUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS GALLINARUM; ENTEROCOCCUS MUNDTII; FECES ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BACTERIOPHAGES; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; GREAT BRITAIN; WATER POLLUTION;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 83455170654     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es202141x     Document Type: Article

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