Comparing wastewater chemicals, indicator bacteria concentrations, and bacterial pathogen genes as fecal pollution indicators

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 248-258

  Haack, Sheridan K ^a   Duris, Joseph W ^a   Fogarty, Lisa R ^a   Kolpin, Dana W ^a   Focazio, Michael J ^a   Furlong, Edward T ^a   Meyer, Michael T ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENES; BACTERIAL PATHOGENS; CARBAMAZEPINE; DRINKING WATERS; ENVIRONMENTAL PERSISTENCES; FECAL COLIFORMS; FECAL CONTAMINATIONS; FECAL INDICATOR BACTERIA; FECAL POLLUTIONS; HUMAN HEALTHS; INDICATOR BACTERIA; ORGANIC WASTEWATERS; POTENTIAL SOURCES; RECREATIONAL WATER QUALITIES; REMEDIATION DECISIONS; VETERINARY ANTIBIOTICS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT EFFLUENTS; WATER QUALITY INDICATORS; WATER SAMPLES;

AMIDES; BACTERIOLOGY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESES; CHEMICALS; DRUG PRODUCTS; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOCUSED ION BEAMS; GENES; INDICATORS (CHEMICAL); ORGANIC CHEMICALS; POLLUTION; POTABLE WATER; STANDARDS; SUBMERSIBLE PUMPS; SURFACE WATERS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

WATER POLLUTION;

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FECES; FRESH WATER; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 58349122091     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2008.0173     Document Type: Article

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