Quantitative assessment of bacterial pathogens, their geographic variability, and distribution
in various matrices at Great Lakes beaches are limited. Quantitative PCR (qPCR) was used …

Understanding of factors that influence Escherichia coli (EC) and enterococci (ENT)
concentrations, pathogen occurrence, and microbial sources at Great Lakes beaches comes …

Poor freshwater beach quality, measured by Escherichia coli (E. coli) levels, poses a risk of
recreational water illness. This study linked environmental data to E. coli geometric means …

Increased usage of public beaches and heightened awareness of the need to monitor water
for potential microbial contamination have led to passage of the US Beaches Environmental …

At many public beaches, routine monitoring of beach water quality using fecal indicator
bacteria is conducted to evaluate the risk of recreational water illness. Results from water …

Abstract Singing Bridge Beach and Whites Beach in Saginaw Bay have been designated as
impaired water bodies by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ). To …

At some coastal beaches, concentrations of fecal-indicator bacteria can differ substantially
between multiple points at the same beach at the same time. Because of this spatial …

While the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Beaches Environmental Assessment
and Coastal Health (BEACH) Act requires coastal and Great Lakes' states to implement …

Monitoring beach waters for human health has led to an increase and evolution of science in
the Great Lakes, which includes microbiology, limnology, hydrology, meteorology …

Introduction Advances in molecular methods provide new opportunities for directly
measuring pathogens or host-associated markers of fecal pollution instead of relying on …