Bacterial, particulate, and environmental factors driving E. coli attachment

viii CHAPTER 1: GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER 2. LITERATURE REVIEW 3 Pathogens and water quality 3 Waterborne disease and water impairment 3 Fecal indicator organisms and water quality standards 4 TMDLs and modeling of bacterial transport 6 Bacterial attachment 7 Definition of bacterial attachment 7 Bacterial attachment in the environment 9 Partitioning methods for bacterial attachment 10 Properties impacting bacterial attachment 12 References 17 CHAPTER 3. DIVERSITY IN PROPERTIES OF E. COLI DERIVED FROM STREAM WATER AND SEDIMENT 23 Abstract 23 23 Introduction 24 Materials and Methods 26 E. coli sampling and analysis 26 Computer-assisted rep-PCR DNA fingerprint analysis 27 Cell Properties 28 Data analyses 30 Results and Discussion 31 E. coli strain selection and dendrogram 31 E. coli property comparison between two environmental habitats 31