Absolute quantification of E. coli virulence and housekeeping genes to determine pathogen loads in enumerated environmental samples

• K. B. Hoorzook ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: K. B. Hoorzook, T. G. Barnard

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kousaro@uj.ac.za

  Affiliation Water and Health Research Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1296-6975

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• T. G. Barnard

  Contributed equally to this work with: K. B. Hoorzook, T. G. Barnard

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Water and Health Research Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

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