Relationships among bather density, levels of human waterborne pathogens, and fecal coliform counts in marine recreational beach water

Parasitology Research

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1103-1108

  Graczyk, Thaddeus K ^a   Sunderland, Deirdre ^a   Awantang, Grace N ^a   Mashinski, Yessika ^a   Lucy, Frances E ^b,c   Graczyk, Zofi ^a,b,d   Chomicz, Lidia ^d   Breysse, Patrick N ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Atlantic Technological University Sligo   (Ireland)

^c Carrick on Shannon Co   (Ireland)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; BATH; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCYTOZOON; FECAL COLIFORM; FUNGUS SPORE; GASTROENTERITIS; GIARDIA DUODENALIS; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECREATION; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT; TURBIDITY; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING;

BATHING BEACHES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCYTOZOON; GIARDIA; HUMANS; POPULATION DENSITY; SEAWATER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; ENTEROCYTOZOON BIENEUSI; GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS;

EID: 77953287428     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-010-1769-2     Document Type: Article

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