ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2021
The Use of Ribosomal RNA as a Microbial Source Tracking Target Highlights the Assay Host-Specificity Requirement in Water Quality Assessments.
Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Scenario-based assessment of fecal pathogen sources affecting bathing water quality: novel treatment options to reduce norovirus andFrontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- An overview of molecular markers for identification of non-human fecal pollution sources.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Review
- Climate Change Impacts on Microbiota in Beach Sand and Water: Looking Ahead.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Wastewater surveillance of antibiotic-resistant bacterial pathogens: A systematic review.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Review
- Bathing Water Quality Monitoring Practices in Europe and the United States.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
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Abstract
For microbial source tracking (MST), the 16S ribosomal RNA genes (rDNA) of host-specific bacteria and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of animal species, known to cause fecal contamination of water, have been commonly used as molecular targets. However, low levels of contamination might remain undetected by using these DNA-based qPCR assays. The high copy numbers of ribosomal RNA (rRNA) could offer a solution for such applications of MST. This study compared the performance of eight MST assays: GenBac3 (general
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