Factors affecting the occurrence of Escherichia coli O157 contamination in irrigation ponds on produce farms in the Suwannee River Watershed

Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 175-182

  Gu, Ganyu ^a   Luo, Zhiyao ^b   Cevallos Cevallos, Juan M ^a,c   Adams, Paige ^d   Vellidis, George ^d   Wright, Anita ^b   van Bruggen, Ariena H C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c ESCUELA SUPERIOR POLITÉCNICA DEL LITORAL   (Ecuador)

^d University of Georgia   (United States)

Author keywords

Biserial correlation; Discriminant analysis; Escherichia coli O157; Fecal indicators; Irrigation ponds

Indexed keywords

RUNOFF;

CORRELATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OPTIMIZATION; POND; POPULATION DENSITY; SAMPLING; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; VIRULENCE; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECAL COLIFORM; HIGH TEMPERATURE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING; WATERSHED;

AGRICULTURAL IRRIGATION; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES; GEORGIA; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PONDS; RAIN; RIVERS; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; VIRULENCE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

GEORGIA; SUWANNEE RIVER; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84875677688     PISSN: 00084166     EISSN: 14803275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cjm-2012-0599     Document Type: Article

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