Linking non-culturable (qPCR) and culturable enterococci densities with hydrometeorological conditions

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 3096-3101

  Byappanahalli, Muruleedhara N ^a   Whitman, Richard L ^a   Shively, Dawn A ^a   Nevers, Meredith B ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beach; Great Lakes; Indicator bacteria; Predictive modeling; Rapid methods; Recreational water quality

Indexed keywords

GREAT LAKES; INDICATOR BACTERIA; PREDICTIVE MODELING; RAPID METHOD; RECREATIONAL WATER QUALITY;

BACTERIOLOGY; BEACHES; CELL CULTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LAKES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TURBIDITY; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIUM; BEACH; ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVER DISCHARGE; TURBIDITY; WATER QUALITY; WIND DIRECTION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROLOGY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAKE; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TURBIDITY; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METEOROLOGY; PROCEDURES;

COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; METEOROLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE MICHIGAN;

EID: 77953712999     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.04.051     Document Type: Article

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