Water quality, weather and environmental factors associated with fecal indicator organism density in beach sand at two recreational marine beaches

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 497-498, Issue , 2014, Pages 440-447

  Heaney, Christopher D ^a,b   Exum, Natalie G ^a   Dufour, Alfred P ^d   Brenner, Kristen P ^d   Haugland, Richard A ^d   Chern, Eunice ^d   Schwab, Kellogg J ^a   Love, David C ^a   Serre, Marc L ^e   Noble, Rachel ^f   Wade, Timothy J ^c  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^d U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^e University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Beach sand; Enterococci; Fecal pollution; QPCR; Rainfall; Water quality

Indexed keywords

BEACHES; CLOSTRIDIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAIN; SAND; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

BEACH SAND; ENTEROCOCCI; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; FECAL INDICATOR ORGANISMS; FECAL POLLUTION; QPCR; U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY;

WATER POLLUTION;

RAIN; SEA WATER;

BEACH; BIOINDICATOR; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FECAL COLIFORM; MARINE POLLUTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAINFALL; SAND; WATER QUALITY; WEATHER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTEROIDALES; BACTEROIDES; CLOSTRIDIUM; COLIPHAGE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FECAL INDICATOR ORGANISM; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAND; SEASHORE; UNITED STATES; WATER QUALITY; WEATHER; BACTEROIDETES; FECES; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; RECREATION; STANDARDS; SWIMMING;

BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDETES; BATHING BEACHES; COLIPHAGES; ENTEROCOCCUS; FECES; RECREATION; SEAWATER; UNITED STATES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84906676853     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.07.113     Document Type: Article

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