Characterization of fecal indicator bacteria in sediments cores from the largest freshwater lake of Western Europe (Lake Geneva, Switzerland)

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 78, Issue , 2012, Pages 50-56

  Thevenon, Florian ^a   Regier, Nicole ^a   Benagli, Cinzia ^b   Tonolla, Mauro ^a,b   Adatte, Thierry ^c   Wildi, Walter ^a   Poté, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b Cantonal Institute of Microbiology   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

E. coli; Enterococcus; Eutrophication; Fecal pollution; Human bacteroides; Lake Geneva; Sediment

Indexed keywords

COLIFORM BACTERIUM; EUTROPHICATION; FECES; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTEROIDES; COASTAL WATERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; EFFLUENT; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUTROPHICATION; FECAL INDICATOR BACTERIA; FECES MICROFLORA; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; LAKE SEDIMENT; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEMBRANE FILTER; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEDIMENT; SWITZERLAND; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTEROIDES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUTROPHICATION; FECES; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HUMANS; LAKES; SWITZERLAND;

LAKE GENEVA; SWITZERLAND; VAUD; VIDY BAY;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84857445136     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2011.11.005     Document Type: Article

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