Natural protection of spring and well drinking water against surface microbial contamination. II. Indicators and monitoring parameters for parasites

Critical Reviews in Microbiology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 179-206

  Edberg, Stephen C ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Parameters for parasites; Spring drinking water; Surface microbial contamination; Well drinking water

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER;

ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; COLIPHAGE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MONITORING; PARASITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030816671     PISSN: 1040841X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10408419709115135     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. MacKenzie, W. R., Hoxie, N. J., Proctor, M. E., Gradus, M. S., Blair, K. A., Peterson, D. E. et al., A massive outbreak in Milwaukee of cryptosporidium infection transmitted through the public water supply, New Engl. J. Med., 331: 161-167, 1995.
2. Covert, T. C., Rice, E. W., Johnson, S. A., Bergman, B., Johnson, C. II., and Mason, P. J., Comparing defined-substrate coliform tests for the detection of Escherichia coll in water, J. Am. Water Works Assoc. 84: 98104, 1992.
3. Covert, T. C., Shadix, L. C., Rice, E. W., Haines, J. R., and Freyberg, R. W., Evaluation of the Auto-analysis Colilert test for detection and enumeration of total coliforms, Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 55(10): 2443-2447, 1989.
4. McCarthy, J. A., Bromine and chlorine dioxide as water disinfectants, J. New Engl. Water Works Assoc., 58: 55-68, 1944.
5. McCarthy, J. A., Chlorine dioxide for the treatment of water supplies, J. New Engl. Water Works Assoc., 59: 252-261, 1945.
6. Edberg, S. C., Do coliforms indicate the presence of protozoa?, J. Am. Water Works Assoc., 77(2): 4, 1994.
7. World Health Organization, Guidelines for Drinking Water Quality, Vol. 1, 2nd ed., Geneva, 1993.
8. Council Directive, Off. J. Eur. Commun., 30.8.80, July 15, 1980.
9. Warburton, D. W., A review of the microbiological quality of bottled water sold in Canada. II. The need for more stringent standards and regulations, Can. J. Microbiol., 39: 158-168, 1993.
10. Warburton, D. W., Bowen, B., and Konkle, A., The survival and recovery of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and its effect upon Salmonella in water: methodology to test bottled water in Canada, Can. J. Microbiol., 40(12): 987-992, 1992.
11. Warburton, D. W., Dodds, K. L., Burke, R., Johnston, M. A., and Laffey, P. J., A review of the microbiological quality of bottled water sold in Canada between 1981-1989, Can. J. Microbiol., 38(1): 12-19, 1992.
12. Warburton, D. W., McCormick, J. K., and Bowen, B., Survival and recovery of Aeromonas hydrophlla in water - development and methodology for testing bottled water in Canada, Can. J. Microbiol., 40(2): 145-148, 1994.
13. Warburton, D. W., Peterkin, P. I., Weiss, K. F., and Johnston, M. A., Microbiological quality of bottled water sold in Canada, Can. J. Microbiol., 32: 891-893, 1986.
14. Hardalo, C. and Edberg, S. C., Pseudomonas aeruginosa: assessment of risk by environmental contact, Crit. Rev. Microbiol., in press.
15. National Research Council (U.S.), Safe Drinking Water Committee, Drinking Water and Health, National Academy of Science, Washington, D.C., 1977.
16. Prescott, S. C. et al., Water Microbiology, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1931.
17. Skinner, F. A. and Shewan, J. M., Aquatic Microbiology, Academic Press, New York, 1977.
18. Jay, J. M., Modern Food Microbiology, 2nd ed., D. Van Nostrand, New York, 1978.
19. Hcathman, L. S., Pierce, S. O., and Kabler, P. W., Resistance of various strains of S. typhi and coli-aerogenes to chlorine and chloramine. Publ. Health Rep., 51: 1367, 1936.
20. Anon., Drinking Water Microbiology, Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society (NATO/CCMS), J. Environ. Pathol. Toxicol. Oncol., 7(5/6): 1-365, 1987.
21. American Public Health Association, Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, 14th ed., Washington, D.C., 1976.
22. Bonde, G. J., Bacteriological methods for estimation of water pollution, Health Lab. Sci., 3: 124, 1966.
23. Hendricks, C. W., Exceptions to the coliform and fecal coliform tests, in Indicators of Viruses in Water and Food, Berg, G., Ed., Ann Arbor Science Publishing, Ann Arbor, 1978, 99-145.
24. Collins, C. H. et al., Microbiological Methods, 6th ed., Butterworths, Boston, 1989.
25. Edberg, S. C., Allen, M. J., Smith, D. B., and Kriz, N. J., Numeration of total coliforms and Escherichia coli from source water by the defined substrate technology, Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 65(5): 1203-1205, 1990.
26. Coburn, J. K., Goodall, T., Fricker, E. J., Walter, K. S., and Fricker, C. R., A preliminary study of the use of Colilert for water quality monitoring, Lett. Appl. Microbiol., 19(1): 50-52.
27. American Public Health Association, Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, 19th ed., Eaton, A. D., Clesceri, L. S., Greenberg, A. E., and Franson, M. A. H., Eds., APHA, AWWA, Water Environmental Association, Washington, D.C., 1995.
28. Edberg, S. C., Allen, M. J., Smith, D. B., and the National Collaborative Study, National field evaluation of a defined substrate method for the simultaneous enumeration of total coliforms and Escherichia coli from drinking water: comparison with standard multiple tube fermentation method, Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 54(6): 1595-1601, 1988.
29. Edberg, S. C. and Smith, D. B., Absence of association between total heterotrophic and total coliform bacteria from a public water supply, Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 55: 380-384, 1989.
30. Geldreich, E. E., Kenner, B. A., and Kahler, P. W., Occurrence of coliforms, fecal coliforms, and streptococci on vegetation and insects, Appl. Microbiol., 12: 63-69, 1964.