Advances in the bacteriology of the coliform group: Their suitability as markers of microbial water safety

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue , 2001, Pages 201-234

  Leclerc, H ^a   Mossel, D A A ^a   Edberg, S C ^a   Struijk, C B ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

DNA DNA hybridization; Ecology of coliforms; Psychrotrophic coliforms; Public health concerns; Taxonomy of enterobacteria

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER TREATMENT;

BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FECES; SAFETY; TERMINOLOGY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER SUPPLY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0034770778     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.55.1.201     Document Type: Review

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