Microbiological and mycological beach sand quality in a volcanic environment: Madeira archipelago, Portugal

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 461-462, Issue , 2013, Pages 469-479

  Pereira, Elisabete ^a   Figueira, Celso ^a   Aguiar, Nuno ^a   Vasconcelos, Rita ^a   Vasconcelos, Sílvia ^b   Calado, Graça ^c   Brandão, João ^d   Prada, Susana ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MADEIRA   (Portugal)

^b Laboratório Regional de Veterinária e Segurança Alimentar   (Portugal)

^c Laboratório de Saúde Pública   (Portugal)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH DR RICARDO JORGE   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Artificial beach; Bacteriological contamination; Beach sand quality; Madeira; Mycological contamination; Natural beach

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL INDICATORS; BEACH SAND; MADEIRA; NUMBER OF SAMPLES; PENICILLIUM SP; RADIATION INTENSITY; SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES; VOLCANIC ENVIRONMENT;

CONTAMINATION; SAND; VOLCANOES; YEAST;

BEACHES;

BACTERIOLOGY; BEACH; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; SAND;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FUNGAL CONTAMINATION; INDICATOR ORGANISM; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; ORGANISM COLONY; PENICILLIUM; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAND; SEASHORE; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL MICROFLORA; SOIL QUALITY; VOLCANO;

ARTIFICIAL BEACH; BACTERIOLOGICAL CONTAMINATION; BEACH SAND QUALITY; MADEIRA; MYCOLOGICAL CONTAMINATION; NATURAL BEACH;

BACTERIA; BATHING BEACHES; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FUNGI; ISLANDS; PORTUGAL; SILICON DIOXIDE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS; WEATHER;

MADEIRA; PORTUGAL;

AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDA; FUNGI; PENICILLIUM SP.;

EID: 84878933575     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.05.025     Document Type: Article

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