Application of an integrated community analysis approach for microbial source tracking in a coastal creek

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 7195-7201

  Cao, Yiping ^a   Van De Werfhorst, Laurie C ^b   Sercu, Bram ^b   Murray, Jill L S ^c   Holden, Patricia A ^b  

^a SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COASTAL WATER RESEARCH PROJECT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c City of Santa Barbara   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COASTAL WATER QUALITY; COMMUNITY ANALYSIS; CONTAMINATION SOURCES; FECAL COLIFORM; FECAL INDICATORS; FECAL SOURCES; HIGH SENSITIVITY; HUMAN WASTE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; MICROBIAL POLLUTION; MICROBIAL SOURCE TRACKING; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH RISKS; QUALITY DIAGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIKING STUDY;

BACTERIOLOGY; CONTAMINATION; ELECTRON EMISSION; HEALTH RISKS; MICROORGANISMS; PUBLIC RISKS; RATING; SEWAGE; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

BACTERIUM; COASTAL WATER; COASTAL ZONE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; HEALTH RISK; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LABORATORY METHOD; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLLUTION EFFECT; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH WORK; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; URBAN AREA; WASTE; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES; FECES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; SEWAGE; URBAN AREA; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CALIFORNIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FECES; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCEANS AND SEAS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PUBLIC HEALTH; RIVERS; SEWAGE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS SP.;

EID: 80052215642     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es201118r     Document Type: Article

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