Application of enterococci antibiotic resistance patterns for contamination source identification at Huntington Beach, California

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 748-755

  Choi, Samuel ^a   Chu, Weiping ^a   Brown, Jennifer ^a   Becker, Sarah J ^a   Harwood, Valerie J ^b   Jiang, Sunny C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance pattern; Bacterial source tracking; California; Enterococcus; Fecal bacteria; Huntington Beach; Pollution source identification

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; CONTAMINATION; EFFLUENTS; SEDIMENTS; SEWAGE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE PATTERNS (ARP);

MARINE POLLUTION;

RUNOFF; SEA WATER;

BIOINDICATOR; COASTAL ZONE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FECAL COLIFORM; POINT SOURCE; POLLUTION MONITORING; SEWAGE OUTFALL;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; ENTEROCOCCUS; FECES; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION MONITORING; PREDICTION; SANITATION; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT; SEWAGE; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; HUNTINGTON BEACH; UNITED STATES;

AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS;

EID: 0037716705     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-326X(03)00046-8     Document Type: Article

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