Escherichia coli O157:H7 transport in saturated porous media: Role of solution chemistry and surface macromolecules

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4340-4347

  Kim, Hyunjung N ^a   Bradford, Scott A ^b   Walker, Sharon L ^a  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

^b U S SALINITY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL POLYMERS; CELL-CELL INTERACTION; COMPLEX PROCESSES; CONFORMATIONAL STATE; DEPOSITION BEHAVIOR; DERJAGUIN-LANDAU-VERWEY-OVERBEEK THEORIES; DLVO THEORY; E.COLI O157:H7; ELECTROSTERIC STABILIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157:H7; GROUNDWATER ENVIRONMENT; HIGH PH; PACKED BED COLUMN; PH-DEPENDENT; POROUS MEDIA; PROTONATED STATE; QUARTZ SAND; SATURATED POROUS MEDIA; SOLUTION CHEMISTRY; SOLUTION PH; TRAVEL DISTANCE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; IONIC STRENGTH; MACROMOLECULES; OXIDE MINERALS; PACKED BEDS; POROUS MATERIALS; QUARTZ; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY; ZETA POTENTIAL;

PH EFFECTS;

FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GROUND WATER; POLYMER; SILICON DIOXIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

COLIFORM BACTERIUM; PH; POLYMER; POROUS MEDIUM; QUARTZ; SAND;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL INTERACTION; CONFORMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IONIC STRENGTH; MACROMOLECULE; NONHUMAN; PH; POROSITY; PREDICTION; PROTON TRANSPORT; SAND; ZETA POTENTIAL; CHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; POROSITY; SILICON DIOXIDE; SOLUTIONS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 67449128247     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es8026055     Document Type: Article

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