Faecal indicator bacteria in river biofilms

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1105-1111

  Balzer, M ^a   Witt, N ^a   Flemming, H C ^a   Wingender, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biofilms; Coliforms; Enterococci; Escherichia coli; Rivers; Sediments

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PATHOGENS; CELL NUMBER; COLIFORMS; E. COLI; ENTEROCOCCI; EPILITHIC BIOFILMS; FAECAL INDICATORS; HETEROTROPHIC PLATE COUNT BACTERIA; HIGH CELL DENSITY; INTESTINAL ENTEROCOCCI; MICROFLORA; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; OVERLYING WATER; POLLUTED RIVERS; SOURCE WATERS; TOTAL COLIFORM BACTERIA; TOTAL COLIFORMS;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOFILMS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

BIOFILTERS;

SURFACE WATER;

BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; BIOINDICATOR; FECAL COLIFORM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PATHOGEN; RIVER WATER; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOFILM; BUTTIAUXELLA AGRESTIS; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CITROBACTER BRAAKII; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; CITROBACTER KOSERI; CITROBACTER YOUNGAE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROBACTER AMNIGENUS; ENTEROBACTER ASBURIAE; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTER INTERMEDIUS; ENTEROBACTER NIMIPRESSURALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES MICROFLORA; INDICATOR ORGANISM; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; KLUYVERA; KLUYVERA CRYOCRESCENS; NONHUMAN; PANTOEA; PLATE COUNT; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; RAHNELLA AQUATILIS; RESERVOIR; RIVER; SEDIMENT; SERRATIA FONTICOLA; SERRATIA LIQUEFACIENS; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SERRATIA RUBIDEA; WATER POLLUTION; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA INTERMEDIA; YERSINIA MOLLARETII;

BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GERMANY; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RIVERS; TEMPERATURE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER PURIFICATION; WATER SUPPLY;

GERMANY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 77952534900     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2010.022     Document Type: Article

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