| rapidly measured indicators of recreational water quality and swimming-associated illness at marine beaches: a prospective cohort study. | in the united states and elsewhere, recreational water quality is monitored for fecal indicator bacteria to help prevent swimming-associated illnesses. standard methods to measure these bacteria take at least 24 hours to obtain results. molecular approaches such as quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qpcr) can estimate these bacteria faster, in under 3 hours. previously, we demonstrated that measurements of the fecal indicator bacteria enterococcus using qpcr were associated with gastrointes ... | 2010 | 21040526 |
| using broiler litter and swine manure lagoon effluent in sawdust-based swine mortality composts: effects on nutrients, bacteria, and gaseous emissions. | disposition of mortalities challenges confined animal feeding operations (cafos), especially sow (farrowing) farms, which experience mortalities daily. regulations and transportation costs may preclude incineration, landfill burial, and rendering; therefore, swine cafos in mississippi in the mid-south u.s. often compost mortalities. in this study, a farm-standard composting mix of sawdust (s) and water (w) was compared with mixes where n was supplied by broiler litter (l) and water was replaced ... | 2015 | 26081729 |