Accounting for Bacterial Overlap Between Raw Water Communities and Contaminating Sources Improves the Accuracy of Signature-Based Microbial Source Tracking

Accounting for Bacterial Overlap Between Raw Water Communities and Contaminating Sources Improves the Accuracy of Signature-Based Microbial Source Tracking

Microbial source tracking (MST) analysis is essential to identifying and mitigating the fecal pollution of water resources. The signature-based MST method uses a library of sequences to identify contaminants based on operational taxonomic units (OTUs) that are unique to a certain source. However, no...

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Main Authors: Moa Hägglund, Stina Bäckman, Anna Macellaro, Petter Lindgren, Emmy Borgmästars, Karin Jacobsson, Rikard Dryselius, Per Stenberg, Andreas Sjödin, Mats Forsman, Jon Ahlinder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
microbial source tracking
fecal contamination
bacterial community analysis
microbial community profiling
16S rRNA amplicon
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2018.02364/full

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