Ubiquity and persistence of Escherichia coli in a Midwestern Coastal Stream

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 4549-4555

  Byappanahalli, Muruleedhara ^a   Fowler, Melanie ^a   Shively, Dawn ^a   Whitman, Richard ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEDIMENTS; STREAM FLOW; WETLANDS;

COASTAL STREAMS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIAL DISEASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CELL SURVIVAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT; STREAM (RIVER); WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING; WETLAND;

COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRESH WATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; RIPARIA;

EID: 0041528344     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.8.4549-4555.2003     Document Type: Article

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