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

• Main Authors: Samuel Dorevitch (Author), Abhilasha Shrestha (Author), Stephanie DeFlorio-Barker (Author), Cathy Breitenbach (Author), Ira Heimler (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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 beac...