Enterococcus and escherichia coli fecal source apportionment with microbial source tracking genetic markers - Is it feasible?

Water Research

Volumn 47, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 6849-6861

  Wang, Dan ^a   Farnleitner, Andreas H ^b   Field, Katharine G ^c   Green, Hyatt C ^d   Shanks, Orin C ^d   Boehm, Alexandria B ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fecal pollution; Microbial source tracking; Water quality

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; DECAY (ORGANIC); HEALTH RISKS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIVER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI BACTERIA; FECAL INDICATOR BACTERIA; FECAL POLLUTION; MICROBIAL SOURCE TRACKING; MOLECULAR MEASUREMENTS; QUANTITATIVE REAL TIME PCR; SOURCE APPORTIONMENT; SOURCE CONTRIBUTIONS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

COLIFORM BACTERIUM; FECES; GENETIC MARKER; HEALTH RISK; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PATHOGEN; PRIORITIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME; SURFACE WATER; WATER QUALITY;

AGING; ARTICLE; CONTAMINATION; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; MICROBIAL SOURCE TRACKING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

FECAL POLLUTION; MICROBIAL SOURCE TRACKING; WATER QUALITY;

ENTEROCOCCUS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; GENETIC MARKERS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 84887186009     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2013.02.058     Document Type: Article

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