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Sequencing human mitochondrial hypervariable region II as a molecular fingerprint for environmental waters.
Environmental science & technology - 16 Sept 2014
Kapoor Vikram, DeBry Ronald W, Boccelli Dominic L, Wendell David
Abstract excerpt
To protect environmental water from human fecal contamination, authorities must be able to unambiguously identify the source of the contamination. Current identification methods focus on tracking fecal bacteria associated with the human gut, but many of these bacterial indicators also thrive in the environment and in other mammalian hosts. Mitochondrial DNA could solve this problem by serving as a human-specific...
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