Monitoring urban beaches with qPCR vs. culture measures of fecal indicator bacteria: Implications for public notification

Monitoring urban beaches with qPCR vs. culture measures of fecal indicator bacteria: Implications for public notification

Abstract Background The United States Environmental Protection Agency has established methods for testing beach water using the rapid quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) method, as well as “beach action values” so that the results of such testing can be used to make same-day beach manageme...

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Main Authors: Samuel Dorevitch, Abhilasha Shrestha, Stephanie DeFlorio-Barker, Cathy Breitenbach, Ira Heimler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-05-01
Series:Environmental Health
Subjects:
Surface water monitoring
Beach management
Fecal indicator bacteria
Quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR)
Water pollution
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12940-017-0256-y

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