Canadian recreational water quality guidelines - Indicators of fecal contamination: Abbreviations
- BAV
- Beach action value
- cce
- Calibrator cell equivalent
- cfu
- Colony-forming units
- e. coli
- Escherichia coli
- EHSS
- Environmental health and safety surveys
- GI
- Gastrointestinal illness
- GM
- Geometric mean
- HCGI
- Highly credible gastrointestinal illness
- MPN
- Most probable number
- MST
- Microbial source tracking
- NEEAR
- National epidemiologic and environmental assessment of recreational water
- NOAEL
- No-observed-adverse-effect level
- PCR
- Polymerase chain reaction
- QMRA
- Quantitative microbial risk assessment
- STEC
- Shinga-toxin producing E. coli
- STV
- Statistical threshold value
- U.K.
- United Kingdom
- U.S. EPA
- United States Environmental Protection Agency
- WHO
- World Health Organization