Assessment of a new Bacteroidales marker targeting North American beaver (Castor canadensis) fecal pollution by real-time PCR

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 201-206

  Marti, Romain ^a   Zhang, Yun ^a   Tien, Yuan Ching ^a   Lapen, David R ^a   Topp, Edward ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beaver specific marker; Microbial source tracking; Real time PCR; Waterborne pathogens

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTEROIDALES; CASTOR CANADENSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECAL POLLUTION; FECES; MARKER GENE; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATERSHED;

BEAVER-SPECIFIC MARKER; MICROBIAL SOURCE TRACKING; REAL-TIME PCR; WATERBORNE PATHOGENS;

ANIMALS; BACTEROIDETES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; ONTARIO; PHYLOGENY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RODENTIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84884323340     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: 18728359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2013.08.016     Document Type: Article

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