Basin-wide analysis of the dynamics of fecal contamination and fecal source identification in Tillamook Bay, Oregon

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 5537-5546

  Shanks, Orin C ^a   Nietch, Christopher ^a   Simonich, Michael ^b   Younger, Melissa ^b   Reynolds, Don ^c   Field, Katharine G ^b  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Tillamook County Performance Partnership   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; CONTAMINATION; GENES; RAIN; RNA; RUNOFF; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FECAL CONTAMINATION; FECAL INDICATOR; SOURCE LOADING POTENTIAL; WATER COLUMN;

MARINE POLLUTION;

DNA; RIVER WATER; RNA 16S;

CLIMATE FORCING; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; FECES; GENETIC MARKER; MARINE POLLUTION; POLLUTANT SOURCE; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTEROIDES; BOVIDS; DYNAMICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESTUARY; FECES; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING;

ANIMALS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FRESH WATER; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; OREGON; RUMINANTS; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; WATER POLLUTION;

NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; TILLAMOOK BAY; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDALES; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33747359916     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03059-05     Document Type: Article

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