Modeling adaptive mutation of enteric bacteria in surface water using agent-based methods

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 223, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2035-2049

  Bucci, Vanni ^a   Hoover, Stewart ^b   Hellweger, Ferdi L ^a  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based modeling; Enteric bacteria; Escherichia coli; Individual based modeling; Mutation; Surface water

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MUTATION; AGENT BASED; AGENT-BASED MODEL; AGENT-BASED MODELING; ASSIMILABLE ORGANIC CARBON; BIPHASIC DECAY; E. COLI; ENTERIC BACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI CELLS; FATE AND TRANSPORT; FIELD DATA; FIRST-ORDER; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODELING; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MECHANISTIC MODELS; MODEL APPLICATION; MODEL-BASED OPC; MODELING APPROACH; MUTATION; MUTATION MECHANISM; MUTATION PROCESS; WATER ENVIRONMENTS; WILD TYPES;

BACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPERIMENTS; RIVERS; SURFACE WATERS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

SURFACE WATER;

BACTERIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; MUTATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANIC CARBON; STOCHASTICITY; SURFACE WATER;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MUTATION; CELL DEATH; CELL DIVISION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LABORATORY; MUTANT; RIVER; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; WILD TYPE;

CHARLES RIVER; MASSACHUSETTS; UNITED STATES;

ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84862216405     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-011-1003-6     Document Type: Article

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