Library-dependent and library-independent microbial source tracking to identify spatial variation in faecal contamination sources along a Lake Ontario beach (Ontario, Canada)

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 719-727

  Edge, T A ^a   Hill, S ^a   Seto, P ^a   Marsalek, J ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beach; Birds; E. coli; Faecal contamination; Microbial source tracking; Wet weather flows

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOWS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; E. COLI; FAECAL CONTAMINATION; LAKE ONTARIO; MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; MICROBIAL SOURCE TRACKING; MICROBIAL SOURCE TRACKING METHODS; MULTIPLE SOURCE; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATERS; ONTARIO , CANADA; POLLUTION SOURCES; PORE WATERS; REP-PCR; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; STORMWATERS; STUDY AREAS; URBAN AREAS; WET WEATHER FLOW;

BEACHES; COMBINED SEWERS; CONTAMINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LAKES; LOCATION; POLLUTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIVERS; WASTEWATER;

RIVER POLLUTION;

FRESH WATER;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BEACH; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FECES; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LAKE POLLUTION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION CONTROL; SPATIAL VARIATION; STORMWATER; URBAN AREA; WASTEWATER;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CANADA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIVER; SEASHORE; WASTE WATER; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; ANIMAL; CHARADRIIFORMES; CLASSIFICATION; DUCKS AND GEESE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANT;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE ONTARIO;

AVES; BACTEROIDALES;

ANIMALS; ANSERIFORMES; CHARADRIIFORMES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FRESH WATER; GENE LIBRARY; HUMANS; ONTARIO; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS;

EID: 78049407378     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2010.335     Document Type: Article

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