Physicochemical Factors Influence the Abundance and Culturability of Human Enteric Pathogens and Fecal Indicator Organisms in Estuarine Water and Sediment

Physicochemical Factors Influence the Abundance and Culturability of Human Enteric Pathogens and Fecal Indicator Organisms in Estuarine Water and Sediment

To assess fecal pollution in coastal waters, current monitoring is reliant on culture-based enumeration of bacterial indicators, which does not account for the presence of viable but non-culturable or sediment-associated micro-organisms, preventing effective quantitative microbial risk assessment (Q...

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Main Authors: Francis Hassard, Anthony Andrews, Davey L. Jones, Louise Parsons, Vera Jones, Brian A. Cox, Peter Daldorph, Howard Brett, James E. McDonald, Shelagh K. Malham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
sediment
fecal indicator organisms
pathogen
elemental analysis
viable but non-culturable bacteria
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2017.01996/full

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