Table 3.
Occurrence of genetic markers in beach water samples and of advisory days during the study period
| Beach | No. of positive samples/total no. of samples (%) |
Occurrence of advisory daysa | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arco | HuBac | UidA | TetQ | Ent | ||
| Euclid | 32/32 (100) | 12/33 (36.4) | 12/33 (36.4) | 14/33 (42.4) | 23/33 (69.7) | 7/34 (20.6) |
| Villa Angela | 31/33 (93.9) | 17/33 (51.5) | 12/33 (36.4) | 5/33 (15.2) | 16/33(48.5) | 7/34 (20.6) |
| East Headlands | 15/33 (45.5) | 2/33 (6.06) | 0/33 (0.00) | 0/33 (0.00) | 19/33 (57.6) | 1/35 (2.86) |
| West Headlands | 19/31 (61.3) | 2/33 (6.06) | 0/33 (0.00) | 0/33 (0.00) | 15/33 (45.5) | 2/34 (5.88) |
| Total | 97/129 (75.2) | 33/132 (25.0) | 24/132 (18.2) | 19/132 (14.4) | 73/132 (55.3) | 17/137 (12.4) |
a
Number of water samples exceeding Ohio's daily maximum bacterial standard (235 E. coli CFU/100 ml)/total number of samples (%).