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Phenotypic library-based microbial source tracking methods: efficacy in the California collaborative study.
Journal of water and health - 1 Dec 2003
Harwood Valerie J, Wiggins Bruce, Hagedorn Charles, Ellender R D, Gooch Jan, Kern James, Samadpour Mansour, Chapman Annie C H, Robinson Brian J, Thompson Brian C
Abstract excerpt
As part of a larger microbial source tracking (MST) study, several laboratories used library-based, phenotypic subtyping techniques to analyse fecal samples from known sources (human, sewage, cattle, dogs and gulls) and blinded water samples that were contaminated with the fecal sources. The methods used included antibiotic resistance analysis (ARA) of fecal streptococci, enterococci, fecal coliforms and E. coli;...
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