Bacterial and protozoan indicators of sewage contamination of deepwater sediments at Hudson Canyon

Journal of Marine Environmental Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 369-376

  Sawyer, Thomas K ^a   Nerad, Thomas A ^b   Gaines, Jack ^c   Small, Eugene B ^d   Cooper, Richard A ^e  

^a Rescon Associates Inc   (United States)

^b Protistology Department   (United States)

^c US Public Health Service N   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Clostridium perfringens; Marine sediments; Protozoans

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001107406     PISSN: 1061026X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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