Distribution and abundance of human-specific bacteroides and relation to traditional indicators in an urban tropical catchment

• Main Authors: Nshimyimana, J. P., Ekklesia, Eveline, Shanahan, P., Chua, L. H. C., Thompson, J. R.
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Environmental engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/105781; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/20970
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Aims: The study goals were to determine the relationship between faecal indicator bacteria (FIB), the HF183 marker and land use, and the phylogenetic diversity of HF183 marker sequences in a tropical urban watershed. Methods and Results: Total coliforms, Escherichia coli, and HF183 were quantified i...