Vulnerability of drinking-water wells in La Crosse, Wisconsin, to enteric-virus contamination from surface water contributions

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 5937-5946

  Borchardt, Mark A ^a   Haas, Nathaniel L ^a,b   Hunt, Randall J ^c  

^a MARSHFIELD CLINIC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LA CROSSE   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIVERS; SURFACE WATER RESOURCES; VIRUSES; WATER WELLS;

ENTERIC VIRUSES; MUNICIPAL WELLS;

POTABLE WATER;

DEUTERIUM; DRINKING WATER; HYDROGEN; OXYGEN; OXYGEN 18; RIVER WATER; SURFACE WATER; VIRUS RNA; WELL WATER;

DRINKING WATER; VIRUS;

ARTICLE; CHLORINATION; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; COLIPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXSACKIE VIRUS A; COXSACKIE VIRUS B; ECHO VIRUS; ENTERIC VIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES MICROFLORA; FLOODING; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; NORWALK GASTROENTERITIS VIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROTAVIRUS; UNITED STATES; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, VIRAL; ENTEROVIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS B, HUMAN; FRESH WATER; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HUMANS; NATURAL DISASTERS; NOROVIRUS; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA VIRUSES; ROTAVIRUS; WATER SUPPLY; WISCONSIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COXSACKIEVIRUS; ECHOVIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HUMAN ENTEROVIRUS B; NOROVIRUS; NORWALK VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES; ROTAVIRUS;

EID: 8144226093     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.10.5937-5946.2004     Document Type: Article

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