A Comparison of Minerals Modified Glutamate Medium with Other Media for the Enumeration of Coliforms in Delicatessen Foods

Abbiss, John S.; Wilson, Jennifer M.; Blood, Ruth M.; Jarvis, Basil

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2672.1981.tb00915.x

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“…1981). Moreover, the traditional media for coliform tests, BGLBB and MacConkey broth, used in this study, contain bile salts and peptone, the composition of both of which is variable (Abbiss et al 1981;Anon. 1982b;Wright 1984).…”

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Coliforms as a measure of sewage contamination of the River Zambezi

Feresu

Sickle

1990

Journal of Applied Bacteriology

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The effect of releasing untreated sewage from Victoria Falls Town into the Zambezi river was determined by bacteriological examination of water samples collected upstream of Victoria Falls and for 22 km downstream. Most probable numbers of faecal coliforms and Escherichia coli were estimated. Water upstream of the falls, on the Zimbabwe side of the river, contained between seven and 130 E. coli per 100 ml. This section of the river was free from major sources of faecal pollution. Below the falls, but before the Victoria Falls Town sewage outfall, numbers of E. coli were between 1.8 X 10(2) and 1.4 X 10(4)/100 ml, indicating the existence of a sewage discharge other than that from Victoria Falls Town. The river was also highly polluted from the Victoria Falls Town sewage outfall to a point 18.6 km downstream. The highest E. coli count was 3.3 X 10(4)/100 ml and declined slowly to 1.4 X 10(3)/100 ml 18.6 km downstream of the outfall.

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