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Detection of Foodborne Bacterial Pathogens from Individual Filth Flies
Published on: February 13, 2015
[The occurrence of Campylobacter in a mountain brook]
1Institut für Wasser-, Boden- und Lufthygiene des Bundesgesundheitsamtes, Forschungsstelle Bad Elster.
Abstract:
The mountain river showed fecal water pollution at all sample sites studied. The arithmetic mean values of total coliforms ranged between 28 and 196/ml. Campylobacters were isolated from all sample sites studied, with a maximum value of 1,100 Campylobacter/100 ml river water. The MCCD-medium resulted in significantly higher isolation rates of Campylobacter from water samples than the VTPRC-medium compared. Colony counts, total coliforms and Campylobacter showed numerical relations of 3831:100:1 respectively.
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