Enterococci in the New Zealand environment: Implications for water quality monitoring

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 35, Issue 11-12, 1997, Pages 325-331

  Anderson, S A ^a   Turner, S J ^a   Lewis, G D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Enterococci; Environment; Expansion; Sources; Survival; Water quality

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

CONFERENCE PAPER; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; HEALTH HAZARD; NEW ZEALAND; RECREATION; SAND; SEAWEED; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; SUNLIGHT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

CELL CULTURE; ECOLOGY; EFFLUENTS; MANURES; MICROORGANISMS; MONITORING; SEAWATER; SEAWEED; SEWAGE; SOLAR RADIATION; SURFACE WATERS; WASTE TREATMENT;

CULTURABILITY; ENTEROCOCCI; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPANSION; ENVIRONMENTAL PERSISTENCE; FAECAL WASTE; NEW ZEALAND ENVIRONMENT; SUNLIGHT;

WATER QUALITY;

EID: 0030616139     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1223(97)00280-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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