Occurrence of Microbial Indicators and Clostridium perfringens in Wastewater, Water Column Samples, Sediments, Drinking Water, and Weddell Seal Feces Collected at McMurdo Station, Antarctica

• Published in: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
• Main Authors: Lisle, John T., Smith, James J., Edwards, Diane D., McFeters, Gordon A.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: American Society for Microbiology 2004
• Subjects: Public Health Microbiology; McMurdo Sound; McMurdo Station; Weddell; Antarc*; Antarctica; Weddell Seal; Weddell Seals
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC535152; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15574926; https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.70.12.7269-7276.2004

McMurdo Station, Antarctica, has discharged untreated sewage into McMurdo Sound for decades. Previous studies delineated the impacted area, which included the drinking water intake, by using total coliform and Clostridium perfringens concentrations. The estimation of risk to humans in contact with t...