Correlative assessment of fecal indicators using human mitochondrial DNA as a direct marker

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 10485-10493

  Kapoor, Vikram ^a   Smith, Christopher ^a   Santo Domingo, Jorge W ^b   Lu, Ting ^c   Wendell, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOWS; FECAL CONTAMINATION; FECAL INDICATORS; INDICATOR ORGANISMS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING; RISK TO HUMAN HEALTH;

DNA; HEALTH RISKS; POLLUTION CONTROL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEWAGE; SURFACE WATERS; WATERSHEDS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; SURFACE WATER;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOINDICATOR; BIOMARKER; FECAL COLIFORM; HEALTH RISK; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEWER NETWORK; SURFACE WATER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BACTEROIDALES; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECAL COLIFORM; FECES; NONHUMAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEWER; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

CINCINNATI; OHIO; UNITED STATES;

BACTEROIDETES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; RIVERS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 84884220635     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es4020458     Document Type: Article

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