Experience with the antibiotic resistance analysis and DNA fingerprinting in tracking faecal pollution at two lake beaches

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 51-58

  Edge, Tom A ^a   Hill, Stephen ^a   Stinson, G ^b   Seto, Peter ^a   Marsalek, Jiri ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b CITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; Faecal pollution; Faecal sources; Microbrial source tracking (MST); Urban beaches

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BEACHES; MONITORING; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; MICROBRIAL SOURCE TRACKING;

MARINE POLLUTION;

WATER;

BACTERIA; BEACHES; MARINE POLLUTION; MONITORING; RISK ASSESSMENT;

DNA FINGERPRINTING; FECES; HEALTH RISK; LAKE POLLUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRACKING; WATER QUALITY;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECAL COLIFORM; HEALTH HAZARD; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION MONITORING; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASHORE; SWIMMING; URBAN AREA; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BATHING BEACHES; BIRDS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FRESH WATER; ONTARIO; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS; WATER POLLUTION;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; TORONTO;

AVES; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 38649141179     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2007.757     Document Type: Article

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