Test of direct and indirect effects of agrochemicals on the survival of fecal indicator bacteria

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 8765-8774

  Staley, Zachery R ^a   Rohr, Jason R ^a   Harwood, Valerie J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES; ANIMAL WASTES; CHLOROTHALONIL; CULTURABLE; E. COLI; FECAL INDICATOR BACTERIA; INDIRECT EFFECTS; INORGANIC FERTILIZERS; PERIPHYTON COMMUNITY; POND WATER; SEDIMENTS AND WATERS; WATER COLUMNS; WATERBODIES;

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; AGRICULTURAL WASTES; ALGAE CONTROL; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERTILIZERS; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SURFACE WATERS;

HERBICIDES;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL;

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; AGROCHEMICAL; ALGA; BIOINDICATOR; DISEASE CONTROL; FECAL COLIFORM; MICROCOSM; PATHOGENICITY; PERIPHYTON; PESTICIDE APPLICATION; POPULATION DENSITY; RUNOFF; SURVIVAL; WATER COLUMN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEDIMENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

AGROCHEMICALS; ANIMALS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 83155182612     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.06044-11     Document Type: Article

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