Evaluation of chemical, molecular, and traditional markers of fecal contamination in an effluent dominated urban stream

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 7369-7375

  Litton, Rachel M ^a   Ahn, Jong Ho ^a   Sercu, Bram ^b   Holden, Patricia A ^b   Sedlak, David L ^c   Grant, Stanley B ^a  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTEROIDES; CHEMICAL MARKERS; ENANTIOMERIC FRACTIONS; ETHYLENE DIAMINE TETRA-ACETIC ACID; FECAL CONTAMINATION; FECAL INDICATOR BACTERIA; FECAL POLLUTION; HUMAN FECAL; HUMAN WASTE; IN-SITU GROWTH; INLAND WATERS; PRIOR EXPERIENCE; QUANTITATIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAW SEWAGE; RIVER SEDIMENTS; SOURCE TRACKING; SOURCE WATERS; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; STREAMBED SEDIMENTS; TREATED WASTEWATER; TREATMENT PLANTS; URBAN STREAM; WASTEWATER EFFLUENTS; WATER COLUMNS;

CHEMICAL SPECIATION; CONTAMINATION; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NUTRIENTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEWAGE; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

RIVER POLLUTION;

EDETIC ACID; PROPRANOLOL;

BACTERIUM; BIOINDICATOR; BIOMARKER; DISINFECTION; EFFLUENT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GROWTH RATE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STREAM BED; WATER COLUMN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTEROIDES; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFLUENT; ENANTIOMER; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FECES MICROFLORA; INDICATOR ORGANISM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIVER; SEDIMENT; SEWAGE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STREAM (RIVER); UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; WASTE WATER; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR;

FECES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; URBANIZATION; WATER POLLUTANTS;

CALIFORNIA; SANTA ANA RIVER; UNITED STATES;

BACTEROIDES; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 77957337423     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es101092g     Document Type: Article

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