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Occurrence, Survival, And Persistence Of The Fecal Indicator Bacterium, Enterococcus Mundtii, In Soils Of A Contaminated Watershed, Marc Carpenter
Occurrence, Survival, And Persistence Of The Fecal Indicator Bacterium, Enterococcus Mundtii, In Soils Of A Contaminated Watershed, Marc Carpenter
Masters Theses, 2010-2019
The Clean Water Act of 1972 raised awareness of the extent of the pollution in U.S. waters and the need for monitoring and identifying sources of contamination. Surface water quality is routinely evaluated using fecal indicators, such as Enterococcus spp. Recent studies in a south Texas watershed showed that fecal bacteria were being transported to water via agricultural land runoff following rainfall, suggesting that soil may be a source of these bacteria. In this study, soils from fields under different crop covers were sampled to determine seasonal levels of enterococci and species of enterococci were identified using the BIOLOG™ Microbial …