Correlation between quantitative PCR and culture-based methods for measuring Enterococcus spp. Over various temporal scales at three California marine beaches

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1237-1242

  Converse, Reagan R ^a   Griffith, John F ^b   Noble, Rachel T ^a   Haugland, Richard A ^c   Schiff, Kenneth C ^b   Weisberg, Stephen B ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COASTAL WATER RESEARCH PROJECT   (United States)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; CULTURE METHODS; CULTURE-BASED METHODS; DIFFUSE POLLUTION; ENTEROCOCCUS SPP; FECAL CONTAMINATION; FECAL INDICATOR BACTERIA; MARINE BEACHES; MEMBRANE FILTRATIONS; MOST PROBABLE NUMBER; QUANTITATIVE PCR; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL SCALE; TIME OF DAY;

CELL CULTURE; MICROFILTRATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BEACHES;

SEA WATER;

BEACH; BIOASSAY; BIOINDICATOR; FECAL COLIFORM; FILTRATION; MARINE POLLUTION; MEMBRANE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; CLASSIFICATION; ENTEROCOCCUS; EVALUATION; FECES; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEDIMENT; STATISTICS; TIME; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIAL LOAD; CALIFORNIA; ENTEROCOCCUS; FECES; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEAWATER; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

ENTEROCOCCUS;

EID: 84857099367     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.07136-11     Document Type: Article

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