Covariation and photoinactivation of traditional and novel indicator organisms and human viruses at a sewage-impacted marine beach

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 8046-8052

  Boehm, Alexandria B ^a   Yamahara, Kevan M ^a   Love, David C ^b   Peterson, Britt M ^c   Mcneill, Kristopher ^c,d   Nelson, Kara L ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b Berkeley   (United States)

^c University of Minnesota   (United States)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; COLIPHAGES; COVARIATION; DETERMINISTIC MODELS; E. COLI; FECAL INDICATORS; HUMAN ADENOVIRUS; HUMAN VIRUS; INACTIVATION MECHANISMS; INDICATOR BACTERIA; INDICATOR ORGANISMS; MARINE BEACHES; MARINE WATERS; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; MICROBIAL INDICATORS; NEAR-SHORE WATERS; PHOTOINACTIVATION; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; RECREATIONAL WATER; SINGLET OXYGEN; SOMATIC COLIPHAGES; STEADY STATE CONCENTRATION; TIME DEPENDENT SOURCE;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; BEACHES; GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; OXYGEN; RNA; SEWAGE; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER ANALYSIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SEA WATER; SINGLET OXYGEN;

BEACH; BIOINDICATOR; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DNA; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHOTODEGRADATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SEWAGE; VIRUS;

ADENOVIRUS; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDALES; COLIPHAGE; ENTEROVIRUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME; MARINE BACTERIUM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROORGANISM; MODEL; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION MONITORING; SEASHORE; SEWAGE; SUNLIGHT; UNITED STATES; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

BACTERIA; BATHING BEACHES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SEAWATER; SEWAGE; SUNLIGHT; VIRUS INACTIVATION; VIRUSES;

BACTEROIDALES; ENTEROVIRUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN ADENOVIRUS;

EID: 70350774361     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es9015124     Document Type: Article

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