COMPARISON OF THE TEMPORAL VARIABILITY OF ENTEROCOCCAL CLUSTERS ...

Courtesy Recent Science Inventory records from the EPA  Wed, 10/01/2008 - 07:25

Understanding how fecal indicator bacteria and/or fecal indicator genotypes vary over time is important to determine the sources of fecal contamination.

Enterococcus is one of the two indicators recommended by the EPA to monitor freshwaters for fecal contamination. Along with Escherichia coli, it has been used by a number of researchers to infer sources of fecal contamination, an area identified as microbial source tracking (MST).

Our objective in this study was to identify changes in the seasonal distribution of enterococcal...

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