Occurrence, molecular characterization and antibiogram of water quality indicator bacteria in river water serving a water treatment plant

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 4979-4985

  Okeke, Benedict C ^a   Thomson, M Sue ^a   Moss, Elica M ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY AT MONTGOMERY   (United States)

^b ALABAMA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coliforms; Enterococci; Escherichia coli; Fecal coliforms; Water quality

Indexed keywords

16S RIBOSOMAL RNA; ALABAMA; CEFIXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLIFORMS; DIFFERENTIAL SCREENING; E. COLI; ENTEROCOCCI; FECAL COLIFORMS; MICROBIAL SOURCE TRACKING; MICROBIOLOGICAL SAFETY; MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION; MOST PROBABLE NUMBER; NITROFURANTOIN; ONE-WAY ANOVA; PUBLIC HEALTH; RIVER WATER; RIVER WATER SAMPLES; SEASONAL VARIATION; TOTAL COLIFORMS; TREATED EFFLUENT; TREATMENT PLANTS; TRIMETHOPRIM; VANCOMYCIN; WATER QUALITY INDICATORS; WATER SAMPLES; WELL WATER; WINTER SEASONS;

ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIA; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; POTABLE WATER; QUALITY CONTROL; RIVERS; RNA; TURBIDITY; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WATER WELLS;

RIVER POLLUTION;

AMPICILLIN; CEFIXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; NITROFURANTOIN; RIVER WATER; RNA 16S; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

BIOINDICATOR; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DRINKING WATER; RIVER WATER; RNA; SEASONAL VARIATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFLUENT; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SAFETY; SCREENING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPRING; SUMMER; TURBIDITY; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; WATER TREATMENT; WINTER;

ALABAMA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DNA PRIMERS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROCOCCACEAE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; RIVERS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER POLLUTION; WATER PURIFICATION; WATER QUALITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 80053445993     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.07.029     Document Type: Article

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