Affiliation:
1. Department of Veterinary Pathobiology1 and
2. Agricultural Experiment Station Statisticians,2 University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Fecal pollution of water resources is an environmental problem of increasing importance. Identification of individual host sources of fecal
Escherichia coli
, such as humans, pets, production animals, and wild animals, is prerequisite to formulation of remediation plans. Ribotyping has been used to distinguish fecal
E. coli
of human origin from pooled fecal
E. coli
isolates of nonhuman origin. We have extended application of this technique to distinguishing fecal
E. coli
ribotype patterns from human and seven individual nonhuman hosts. Classification accuracy was best when the analysis was limited to three host sources. Application of this technique to identification of host sources of fecal coliforms in water could assist in formulation of pollution reduction plans.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Ecology,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,Food Science,Biotechnology
Cited by
147 articles.
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