Comparison of bacterial communities in sands and water at beaches with bacterial water quality violations.

Recreational water quality, as measured by culturable fecal indicator bacteria (FIB), may be influenced by persistent populations of these bacteria in local sands or wrack, in addition to varied fecal inputs from human and/or animal sources. In this study, pyrosequencing was used to generate short s...

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Main Authors: Elizabeth Halliday, Sandra L McLellan, Linda A Amaral-Zettler, Mitchell L Sogin, Rebecca J Gast
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3944938?pdf=render