Isolation of fecal coliform bacteria from the diamondback terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin centrata)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 865-867

  Harwood, Valerie J ^a,b   Butler, Joseph ^a   Parrish, Danny ^a   Wagner, Victoria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FECAL COLIFORM; REPTILE; WATER QUALITY;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; FISH; NONHUMAN; SALMONELLA; SHELLFISH; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WATER SAMPLING;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMYDIDAE; ENTEROBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MALACLEMYS; MALACLEMYS TERRAPIN; MALACLEMYS TERRAPIN CENTRATA; NEGIBACTERIA; OSTREIDAE; REPTILIA; SALMONELLA;

EID: 0033050598     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.2.865-867.1999     Document Type: Article

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