Validation of Bacteroidales quantitative PCR assays targeting human and animal fecal contamination in the public and domestic domains in India

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 502, Issue , 2015, Pages 462-470

  Odagiri, Mitsunori ^a   Schriewer, Alexander ^a   Hanley, Kaitlyn ^a   Wuertz, Stefan ^a,c   Misra, Pravas R ^b   Panigrahi, Pinaki ^d   Jenkins, Marion W ^a,e  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b Asian Institute of Public Health   (India)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacteroidales; Fecal pollution; India; Microbial source tracking; Quantitative PCR

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CONTAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEWAGE; WATER POLLUTION;

BACTEROIDALES; FECAL POLLUTION; INDIA; MICROBIAL SOURCE TRACKING; QUANTITATIVE PCR;

ANIMALS;

FECAL COLIFORM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTEROIDALES; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; DOG; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; EUROPE; FECES ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INDIA; LIVESTOCK; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS; ANIMAL; BACTEROIDETES; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FECES; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEWAGE; VALIDATION STUDY;

EUROPE; INDIA; ODISHA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; BACTEROIDALES;

SEWAGE;

ANIMALS; BACTEROIDETES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FECES; HUMANS; INDIA; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEWAGE;

EID: 84908354746     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.09.040     Document Type: Article

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