Multi-laboratory evaluations of the performance of Catellicoccus marimammalium PCR assays developed to target gull fecal sources

Water Research

Volumn 47, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 6883-6896

  Sinigalliano, Christopher D ^a   Ervin, Jared S ^b   Van De Werfhorst, Laurie C ^b   Badgley, Brian D ^c,p   Ballesté, Elisenda ^d   Bartkowiak, Jakob ^a,e   Boehm, Alexandria B ^f   Byappanahalli, Muruleedhara ^g   Goodwin, Kelly D ^a   Gourmelon, Michèle ^h   Griffith, John ⁱ   Holden, Patricia A ^b   Jay, Jenny ^j   Layton, Blythe ⁱ   Lee, Cheonghoon ^k   Lee, Jiyoung ^k   Meijer, Wim G ^d   Noble, Rachel ^l   Raith, Meredith ⁱ   Ryu, Hodon ^m   Sadowsky, Michael J ^c   Schriewer, Alexander ⁿ   Wang, Dan ^f   Wanless, David ^a,e   Whitman, Richard ^f   Wuertz, Stefan ^n,o   Santo Domingo, Jorge W ^m   more..

^a ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^f Stanford University   (United States)

^g U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^h IFREMER   (France)

ⁱ SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COASTAL WATER RESEARCH PROJECT   (United States)

^j University of California   (United States)

^k OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^m U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

ⁿ University of California   (United States)

^o NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^p VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Catellicoccus marimammalium; Fecal indicator bacteria; Gulls; Microbial source tracking; Quantitative PCR; Water quality monitoring

Indexed keywords

BIRDS; CONTAMINATION; LABORATORIES; RNA; STANDARDIZATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

CATELLICOCCUS MARIMAMMALIUM; FECAL INDICATOR BACTERIA; GULLS; MICROBIAL SOURCE TRACKING; QUANTITATIVE PCR; WATER QUALITY MONITORING;

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; BIOASSAY; COASTAL SEDIMENT; COASTAL ZONE; FECES; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; LABORATORY METHOD; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLLUTION MONITORING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEABIRD; STANDARDIZATION; WATER QUALITY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CATELLICOCCUS MARIMAMMALIUM; COASTAL WATERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS; FECES ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MICROBIAL SOURCE TRACKING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDIZATION; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY;

AVES; COLUMBA; ENTEROCOCCUS;

C(T); CATELLICOCCUS MARIMAMMALIUM; CFU; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CV; CYCLE THRESHOLD; DETECTED BUT NOT QUANTIFIABLE; DNQ; FECAL INDICATOR BACTERIA; FIB; GULLS; LLOQ; LOWER LIMIT OF QUANTIFICATION; MICROBIAL SOURCE TRACKING; MST; ND; NOT DETECTED; PCR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QC; QMRA; QPCR; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE MICROBIAL RISK ASSESSMENT; QUANTITATIVE PCR; QUANTITATIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANGE OF QUANTIFICATION; ROQ; SIPP; SOURCE IDENTIFICATION PROTOCOL PROJECT; TMDL; TOTAL MAXIMUM DAILY LOAD; WATER QUALITY MONITORING;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CALIFORNIA; CHARADRIIFORMES; COLUMBIDAE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCACEAE; FECES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 84887170528     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2013.02.059     Document Type: Article

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