Difficulties in the Modeling of E. coli Spreading from Various Sources in a Coastal Marine Area.

ABSTRACT: Coastal and transitional waters are often used as bathing waters. In many regions, such activities play an important economic role. According to the European Union Bathing Water Directive (2006/7/EC) (BWD) the concentration of Escherichia coli in bathing water exceeding 500 CFU·100 mL^-1 poses a high risk for bathers' health. In order to safeguard public health, microbiological environmental monitoring is carried out, which has recently been supported or replaced by mathematical models detailing the spread of sanitary contamination. This study focuses on the problems and limitations that can be encountered in the process of constructing a mathematical model describing the spread of biological contamination by E. coli bacteria in coastal seawater. This and other stud

SUBMITTER: Wolska L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9316465 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature