Are fecal indicator bacteria appropriate measures of recreational water risks in the tropics: A cohort study of beach goers in Brazil?

Water Research

Volumn 87, Issue , 2015, Pages 59-68

  Lamparelli, Claudia Condé ^a   Pogreba Brown, Kristen ^b   Verhougstraete, Marc ^b   Sato, Maria Inês Zanoli ^a   de Castro Bruni, Antonio ^a   Wade, Timothy J ^c   Eisenberg, Joseph N S ^d  

^a Sao Paulo State Company for Sanitation and Technology (CETESB)   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Brazil; Diarrheal disease; Fecal indicator bacteria; Recreational waters; Tropics

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BEACHES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

BRAZIL; ECONOMIC CONCERNS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES; FECAL INDICATOR BACTERIA; MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES; RECREATIONAL WATER; RECREATIONAL WATER QUALITY; SAO PAULO , BRAZIL;

TROPICS;

RECREATIONAL WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER; SEA WATER;

BEACH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIARRHEAL DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FECAL COLIFORM; MARINE POLLUTION; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOURISM ECONOMICS; WATER QUALITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECAL INDICATOR BACTERIA; FECES MICROFLORA; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAND; SEASHORE; SUMMER; SWIMMING; TOURISM; TROPICS; VOMITING; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR; WATER QUALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FECES; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TROPIC CLIMATE;

BRAZIL; SAO PAULO [BRAZIL];

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BATHING BEACHES; BRAZIL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEAWATER; SWIMMING; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84941631813     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2015.09.001     Document Type: Article

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