Development and application of a quantitative PCR assay targeting Catellicoccus marimammalium for assessing gull-associated fecal contamination at Lake Erie beaches

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 454-455, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-8

  Lee, Cheonghoon ^a   Marion, Jason W ^a,b   Lee, Jiyoung ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Catellicoccus marimammalium; Gull; Lake Erie beaches; Microbial source tracking; QPCR; Sanitary survey

Indexed keywords

CATELLICOCCUS MARIMAMMALIUM; GULL; LAKE ERIE; MICROBIAL SOURCE TRACKING; QPCR;

ANIMALS; BEACHES; CONTAMINATION; DIGITAL STORAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LAKES; RNA; SURVEYS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

RNA 16S;

BIRD; FECAL COLIFORM; FECES; LAKE POLLUTION; LAKE WATER; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHORE (NONMARINE); WATER QUALITY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTEROIDES; BIRD; CATELLICOCCUS MARIMAMMALIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GYRB GENE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEA GULL; SEASHORE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WASTE WATER; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING;

ANIMALS; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BATHING BEACHES; CHARADRIIFORMES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA GYRASE; ENTEROCOCCACEAE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; HUMANS; LAKES; OHIO; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DENSITY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; WATER QUALITY;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE ERIE;

ANIMALIA; BACTEROIDES; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84875784394     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.03.003     Document Type: Article

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