Determining Sources of Fecal Pollution in a Rural Virginia Watershed with Antibiotic Resistance Patterns in Fecal Streptococci

Determining sources of fecal pollution in a rural Virginia watershed with antibiotic resistance patterns in fecal streptococci.

Nonpoint sources of pollution that contribute fecal bacteria to surface waters have proven difficult to identify. Knowledge of pollution sources could aid in restoration of the water quality, reduce the amounts of nutrients leaving watersheds, and reduce the danger of infectious disease resulting from exposure to contaminated waters. Patterns of antibiotic resistance in fecal streptococci were ...

Determining Sources of Fecal Pollution in the Blackwater River Watershed,

Identifying Sources of Fecal Pollution in the Roanoke River, Roanoke County, Virginia

Antibiotic Resistance Patterns (ARPs) of Enterococcus spp. were used as a phenotypic fingerprint to compare and categorize unknown-source isolates in an impaired segment of the Roanoke River, Roanoke County, Virginia. Antibiotic resistance analysis (ARA) of enterococci has been effectively used to differentiate among sources of fecal contamination in many geographic regions in the United States...

Fecal Streptococci in Water'

ROSE, ROBERT E. (Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Amherst), AND WARREN LITSKY. Enrichment procedure for use with the membrane filter for isolation and enumeration of fecal streptococci in water. Appl. Microbiol. 13:106-108. 1965.-By the use of PYC enrichment medium, the recovery of fecal streptococci from river water has been increased more than twofold over that of M-Enterococcus Aga...

Microbial Source Tracking to Identify Fecal Pollution Sources in Water

Janis L. Thomas (Environmental Monitoring and Reporting Branch, Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change, Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) Susan Weir and Ann-Marie Irwin-Abbey (Laboratory Services Branch, Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change, Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change, Toronto, Ontario,...