Discrimination efficacy of fecal pollution detection in different aquatic habitats of a high-altitude tropical country, using presumptive coliforms, Escherichia coli, and Clostridium perfringens spores

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 65-71

  Byamukama, Denis ^a   Mach, Robert L ^b   Kansiime, Frank ^a   Manafi, Mohamad ^c   Farnleitner, Andreas H ^b  

^a M Univ Inst Environ/Nat Rsrc   (Uganda)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOLOGY; CONTAMINATION; EROSION; LAKES; METABOLISM; POLLUTION; SOILS; WATER QUALITY;

AQUATIC HABITATS; FECAL COLIFORMS (FC); FECAL POLLUTION; TOTAL COLIFORMS (TC);

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

DETECTION METHOD; DEVELOPING WORLD; FECES; MONITORING; POLLUTION;

ALTITUDE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SPORE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LAKE; POLLUTION; POLLUTION MONITORING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STREAM (RIVER); UGANDA; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY;

ALTITUDE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; ECOSYSTEM; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FRESH WATER; HUMANS; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WATER POLLUTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 12244291255     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.1.65-71.2005     Document Type: Article

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