Patent ID: 9725770
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: C07H,C12Q

Claim:
1. A method for detecting the source of fecal bacteria contamination in an environmental sample, comprising the steps of (a) providing an environmental sample to be tested; (b) determining the presence of a plurality of taxa of fecal indicator bacteria in said environmental sample using a microarray comprising probes capable of detecting the source-specific taxa set forth in Table 1 (bird), Table 2 (grazer) or Table 3 (sewage); and (c) identifying the environmental sample as having fecal contamination from bird feces, grazer feces and/or sewage if the plurality of taxa of fecal indicator bacteria determined to be present in said environmental sample in step (b) comprises at least 10% of the source-specific taxa set forth in Table 1 (bird), Table 2 (grazer) or Table 3 (sewage).