Browsing by Subject "Microbial source tracking"
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Investigation of faecal pollution sources and bacterial transfer hydrodynamics in rural catchments
(2015-03-13)Faecal bacteria from point and diffuse source pollution can impact water which poses a serious public health and environmental threat. Faecal pollution contains nutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen and when in excess ... -
Specificity and sensitivity evaluation of novel and existing Bacteroidales and Bifidobacteria-specific PCR assays on feces and sewage samples and their application for microbial source tracking in Ireland
(Elsevier, 2009)Three novel ruminant-specific PCR assays, an existing ruminant-specific PCR assay and five existing human-specific PCR assays, which target 16S rDNA from Bacteroidales or Bifidobacteria, were evaluated. The assays were ...