Differentiating enteric Escherichia coli from environmental bacteria through the putative glucosyltransferase gene (ycjM)

Water Research

Volumn 61, Issue , 2014, Pages 224-231

  Deng, Daiyong ^a   Zhang, Ling ^b   Mustapha, Azlin ^c   Xu, Dong ^b   Wuliji, Tumen ^a   Farley, Mary ^a   Yang, John ^a   Hua, Bin ^a   Liu, Fengjing ^a   Zheng, Guolu ^a  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

"Naturalized" E. coli; Cryptic Escherichia; Enumeration; MTEC; PCR

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WATER QUALITY;

BACTERIAL IDENTIFICATIONS; CRYPTIC ESCHERICHIA; E. COLI; ENUMERATION; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MTEC; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; WATER QUALITY MONITORING;

WATER POLLUTION;

BETA GLUCURONIDASE; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; WASTE WATER;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BIOASSAY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FECES; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; COMPUTER MODEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; FECES; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; WATER SAMPLING; BACTERIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; WASTE WATER;

ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WASTE WATER; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84902149263     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2014.05.015     Document Type: Article

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