Performance characteristics of qPCR assays targeting human- and ruminant-associated bacteroidetes for microbial source tracking across sixteen countries on six continents

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 8548-8556

  Reischer, Georg H ^a,b   Ebdon, James E ^c   Bauer, Johanna M ^a   Schuster, Nathalie ^a   Ahmed, Warish ^d   Åström, Johan ^e   Blanch, Anicet R ^f   Blöschl, Günter ^a   Byamukama, Denis ^g   Coakley, Tricia ^h   Ferguson, Christobel ⁱ   Goshu, Goraw ^j   Ko, Gwangpyo ^k   De Roda Husman, Ana Maria ^l   Mushi, Douglas ^m   Poma, Ramiro ⁿ   Pradhan, Bandana ^o   Rajal, Veronica ⁿ   Schade, Margit A ^p   Sommer, Regina ^b,q   Taylor, Huw ^c   Toth, Erika M ^r   Vrajmasu, Virgil ^s   Wuertz, Stefan ^t   MacH, Robert L ^a   Farnleitner, Andreas H ^a,b   more..

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b InterUniversity Cooperation Centre Water and Health   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^g MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^h UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

ⁱ ALS Water Sciences Group   (Australia)

^j BAHIR DAR UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^k Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^l NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^m Sokoine University   (Tanzania)

ⁿ UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SALTA   (Argentina)

^o TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

^p Bavarian Environment Agency   (Germany)

^q MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^r EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^s Veterinary State Laboratory   (Romania)

^t UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTEROIDETES; FECAL SAMPLES; FECAL SOURCES; MICROBIAL SOURCE TRACKING; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; QUANTITATIVE PCR; REGIONAL LEVELS; TARGET AND NON TARGETS;

MAMMALS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ASSAYS;

BACTERIUM; CATTLE; FECES; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RUMINANT;

ARTICLE; BACTEROIDETES; BOVIDS; CATTLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEER; DNA DEGRADATION; DONKEY; FECES ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GOAT; HORSE; KANGAROO; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; MICROBIAL SOURCE TRACKING; MICROBIOME; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEEP; SWINE; WILD BOAR; WOODCHUCK;

ANIMALS; BACTEROIDETES; FECES; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RUMINANTS;

EID: 84881436427     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es304367t     Document Type: Article

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