Factors related to occurrence and distribution of selected bacterial and protozoan pathogens in Pennsylvania streams

Water Research

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 300-314

  Duris, Joseph W ^a   Reif, Andrew G ^b   Krouse, Donna A ^c   Isaacs, Natasha M ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b US Geological Survey Pennsylvania Water Science Center   (United States)

^c Bureau of Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

Discharge; Fecal indicator bacteria; Human source pharmaceuticals; Land use; Pathogenic e. coli; Protozoan pathogens; Recreational water quality criteria

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; CAFFEINE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; MAMMALS; MOLLUSCS; PATHOGENS; PROTOZOA; RIVERS; WATER QUALITY;

COLI; DISCHARGE; FAECAL INDICATOR BACTERIA; HUMAN SOURCE PHARMACEUTICAL; PATHOGENIC E.; PATHOGENICS; PROTOZOAN PATHOGEN; RECREATIONAL WATER QUALITY; RECREATIONAL WATER QUALITY CRITERIA; WATER QUALITY CRITERIA;

LAND USE;

4 ANDROSTENEDIOL; CAFFEINE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CARBONIC ACID; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ESTRONE; IRON; NITROGEN; PARACETAMOL; PHOSPHORUS; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIUM; DISCHARGE; DRUG; FECAL COLIFORM; GENETIC MARKER; LAND USE; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; PATHOGEN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PROTOZOAN; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; STREAMWATER; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); COW; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CYST (RESTING STAGE); ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; GEOLOGY; GIARDIA; HARDNESS; HUMAN; LAND USE; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PH; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; SPRING; STREAM (RIVER); SUMMER; SWINE; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; WATER QUALITY; WATER TEMPERATURE; WATERSHED; WINTER;

PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOVINAE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GIARDIA; PROTOZOA; SUIDAE;

EID: 84870064904     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2012.10.006     Document Type: Article

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