Data acceptance criteria for standardized human-associated fecal source identification quantitative real-time PCR methods

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 82, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 2773-2782

  Shanks, Orin C ^a   Kelty, Catherine A ^a   Oshiro, Robin ^a   Haugland, Richard A ^a   Madi, Tania ^b   Brooks, Lauren ^c   Field, Katharine G ^c   Sivaganesan, Mano ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b Source Molecular Corporation   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BENCHMARKING; DNA; LABORATORIES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY MANAGEMENT; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA; AMPLIFICATION EFFICIENCIES; CONTAMINATION ASSESSMENT; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEGREE OF CONFIDENCE; LOWER LIMIT OF QUANTIFICATIONS; QUANTITATIVE REAL TIME PCR; STANDARDIZED PROCEDURE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA);

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CALIBRATION; DATA PROCESSING; DATA QUALITY; DNA; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FECES; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; INTERLABORATORY COMPARISON; LABORATORY METHOD; OUTLIER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

BACTERIAL DNA; SEWAGE;

ANALYSIS; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FECES; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEWAGE; STANDARDS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

BACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FECES; HUMANS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEWAGE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84965113598     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03661-15     Document Type: Article

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