Microbial Transport, Retention, and Inactivation in Streams: A Combined Experimental and Stochastic Modeling Approach

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 7825-7833

  Drummond, Jennifer D ^a,b   Davies Colley, Robert J ^b   Stott, Rebecca ^b   Sukias, James P ^b   Nagels, John W ^b   Sharp, Alice ^b,c   Packman, Aaron I ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROORGANISMS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; STREAM FLOW;

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GRAVITATIONAL SETTLINGS; INSTREAM STRUCTURES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MICROBIAL INACTIVATION; MULTISCALE STOCHASTIC MODELS; PATHOGENIC MICROORGANISMS; SUBMERGED MACROPHYTES;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER;

BACTERIUM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYPORHEIC ZONE; MACROPHYTE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PATHOGEN; RETENTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT CORE; STOCHASTICITY; STREAM; SURVIVAL; TRACER; WATERBORNE DISEASE;

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; DISPERSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FILTRATION; IMMOBILIZATION; INACTIVATION RATE CONSTANT; MACROPHYTE; MEMORY; MICROBIAL INACTIVATION; MICROBIAL RETENTION; MICROBIAL TRANSPORT; MICROBIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; NONHUMAN; PROBABILITY; RIVER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT; SIMULATION; SPRING; STOCHASTIC MODEL; STREAM (RIVER); SUNLIGHT; SURFACE PROPERTY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RIVERS; SEASONS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84936970718     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b01414     Document Type: Article

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