Naturalized Escherichia coli from New Zealand wetland and stream environments

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 494-503

  Perchec Merien, Anne Marie ^a   Lewis, Gillian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Biofilm; Environmental; Indicator; Multilocus sequence typing

Indexed keywords

BIOFILM; BIOINDICATOR; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DATABASE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; GROWTH RATE; PHYLOGENETICS; STREAMWATER; SUBPOPULATION; WATER QUALITY; WETLAND;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CLASSIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEW ZEALAND; PHYLOGENY; RIVER; WETLAND;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEW ZEALAND; PHYLOGENY; RIVERS; WETLANDS;

NEW ZEALAND;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOVINAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84871950118     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6941.12010     Document Type: Article

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