Freshwater mussels as monitors of bacter
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Charles E. Turick; Alan J. Sexstone; Gary K. Bissonnette
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Article
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1988
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Springer Netherlands
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English
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A species of commercially obtained freshwater mussel (Ellipn'o complanata) was shown to actively filter, concentrate, and retain fecal coliform (FC) bacteria from a variety of freshwater stream environments. Fecal coliform densities in mussel viscera were maximum within 48 hr of in situ exposure. Si