Water quality indicators and the risk of illness at beaches with nonpoint sources of fecal contamination

Epidemiology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 27-35

  Colford Jr , John M ^a   Wade, Timothy J ^b   Schiff, Kenneth C ^c   Wright, Catherine C ^a   Griffith, John F ^c   Sandhu, Sukhminder K ^a   Burns, Susan ^a   Sobsey, Mark ^d   Lovelace, Greg ^d   Weisberg, Stephen B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COASTAL WATER RESEARCH PROJECT   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES; CHILD; COLIPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; ENTEROCOCCUS; FECAL COLIFORM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NOROVIRUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RASH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SWIMMING; UNITED STATES; WATER QUALITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BACTEROIDES; BATHING BEACHES; CALIFORNIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DYSENTERY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC DISEASES; RISK FACTORS; SEAWATER; SKIN DISEASES, INFECTIOUS; SWIMMING; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 33845810487     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ede.0000249425.32990.b9     Document Type: Article

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