Gene and antigen markers of Shiga-toxin producing E. coli from Michigan and Indiana river water: Occurrence and relation to recreational water quality criteria

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1878-1886

  Duris, Joseph W ^a   Haack, Sheridan K ^a   Fogarty, Lisa R ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PATHOGENS; E. COLI; FECAL COLIFORMS; FECAL INDICATOR BACTERIA; GENE ASSAY; INDIANA; MICHIGAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; RECREATIONAL WATER; RECREATIONAL WATER QUALITY; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RIVER SITES; RIVER WATER; VIRULENCE GENE;

ANTIGENS; BACTERIOLOGY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOCUSED ION BEAMS; GENES; PATHOGENS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RIVERS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

WATER RESOURCES;

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; RIVER WATER;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; EAEA GENE; FECAL COLIFORM; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; STX1 GENE; STX2 GENE; UNITED STATES; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER STANDARD; WATERSHED;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENES, BACTERIAL; INDIANA; MICHIGAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIVERS; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 69749091726     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2008.0225     Document Type: Article

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