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Quo vadis source tracking? Towards a strategic framework for environmental monitoring of fecal pollution

Abstract

Advances in microbial source tracking (MST) have largely been driven by the need to comply with water quality standards based on traditional indicator bacteria. Recently, a number of culture-independent, and library-independent methods based on polymerase chain reaction (PCR) have been gaining popularity among source trackers. However, only a limited number of these methods have been successfully used in field applications, primarily due to the …

Authors

Domingo JWS; Bambic DG; Edge TA; Wuertz S

Journal

Water Research, Vol. 41, No. 16, pp. 3539–3552

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

8 2007

DOI

10.1016/j.watres.2007.06.001

ISSN

0043-1354