Relationships between indicators, pathogens and water quality in an estuarine system

Water Research

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 2045-2054

  Ferguson, Christobel M ^a,d   Coote, Brian G ^a   Ashbolt, Nicholas J ^b   Stevenson, Iain M ^c  

^a AWT EnSight   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d c/o Burns Philp R and D Division ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Cryptosporidium; Enteric virus; Giardia; Indicators; Pathogen; Sediment; Water quality

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

AEROMONAS; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIOPHAGE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; ENTERIC VIRUS; ESTUARY; GIARDIA; MICROORGANISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA; SEDIMENT; SEWAGE; STREPTOCOCCUS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING;

AEROMONAS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; GIARDIA; SALMONELLA; STREPTOCOCCUS; AEROMONAS SP.; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM SP.;

ENTERIC VIRUS; ESTUARINE SYSTEM; FECAL POLLUTION INDICATOR; PATHOGENS; SEWAGE OVERFLOW; WET WEATHER EVENTS;

BACTERIOPHAGES; COLIFORM BACTERIA; RAIN; SEDIMENTS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ESTUARIES;

BIOINDICATORS; ENTERIC VIRUS; ESTUARIES; ESTUARINE WATER QUALITY; PATHOGEN; PATHOGENS; SEDIMENTS; WATER QUALITY;

AUSTRALIA, NEW SOUTH WALES, SYDNEY;

EID: 0030222898     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0043-1354(96)00079-6     Document Type: Article

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