Geographic setting influences Great Lakes beach microbiological water quality

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 12054-12063

  Haack, Sheridan K ^a   Fogarty, Lisa R ^a   Stelzer, Erin A ^a   Fuller, Lori M ^a   Brennan, Angela K ^a   Isaacs, Natasha M ^a   Johnson, Heather E ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PATHOGENS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; IMPERVIOUS SURFACE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGICAL WATER QUALITY; PATHOGEN DETECTION; STATISTICAL THRESHOLD;

BEACHES; CATCHMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; LAKES; SALMONELLA; WATER QUALITY;

PATHOGENS;

SHIGA TOXIN; SURFACE WATER; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

BEACH; GENETIC MARKER; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGEN; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTEROIDES; BOVIDS; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CATCHMENT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENRICHMENT CULTURE; FECES MICROFLORA; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LAKE; MARKER GENE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; SALMONELLA; SEASHORE; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; SHIGELLA; URBAN AREA; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; ANIMAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; RECREATION; RUMINANT; UNITED STATES;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA];

ANIMALS; BACTEROIDES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; GREAT LAKES REGION; HUMANS; LAKES; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; RECREATION; RUMINANTS; SALMONELLA; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84887893621     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es402299a     Document Type: Article

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