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Research Projects - Emerging Contaminants
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Antimicrobial Resistance at Beaches

In the course of studying the sources and environmental factors influencing fecal indicator bacteria numbers at Great Lakes beaches, analyses of antibiotic-resistance patterns for enterococci in gull feces and from a variety of environmental matrices were conducted.

Available Publications

Fogarty, L. R., Haack, S. K., Wolcott, M. J., and Whitman, R. L., 2003, Abundance and characteristics of the recreational water quality indicator bacteria Escherichia coli and enterococci in gull faeces: Journal of Applied Microbiology, v. 94, pp.865-878.

Haack, S. K., Fogarty, L. R., and Wright, Christopher, 2003, Escherichia coli and enterococci at beaches in the Grand Traverse Bay, Lake Michigan: sources, characteristics and environmental pathways: Environmental Science and Technology, v. 37, pp. 3275-3282.

More Information

  • Project contact: Sheridan Haack

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