Are existing bacterial indicators adequate for determining recreational water illness in waters impacted by nonpoint pollution?

Epidemiology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 21-22

  Schwab, Kellogg J ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; COASTAL WATERS; COLIPHAGE; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; EYE IRRITATION; FECES; FEVER; GASTROENTERITIS; MUSCLE CRAMP; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DISEASE; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; RECREATION; RISK FACTORS; SEAWATER; WATER POLLUTANTS;

EID: 33845797462     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ede.0000249537.24445.c8     Document Type: Note

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