Meeting report: Knowledge and gaps in developing microbial criteria for inland recreational waters

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 871-876

  Dorevitch, Samuel ^a   Ashbolt, Nicholas J ^b   Ferguson, Christobel M ^c,d   Fujioka, Roger ^e   McGee, Charles D ^f   Soller, Jeffrey A ^g   Whitman, Richard L ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c Ecowise Environmental Australia   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^f ORANGE COUNTY SANITATION DISTRICT   (United States)

^g Soller Environmental   (United States)

^h U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clean water act; Environmental epidemiology; Environmental microbiology; Indicator bacteria; Inland waters; Predictive modeling; Water recreation; Waterborne pathogens

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COASTAL WATERS; CRITERION VARIABLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HEALTH HAZARD; KNOWLEDGE; LAKE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECREATION; SEASHORE; STANDARDIZATION; WATER QUALITY; BACTERIA; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; GOVERNMENT; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; RESEARCH; STANDARDS; SWIMMING; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA; BATHING BEACHES; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; RECREATION; RESEARCH; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 77953265899     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0901627     Document Type: Article

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