Specific growth rate determines the sensitivity of Escherichia coli to thermal, UVA, and solar disinfection

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2586-2593

  Berney, Michael ^a   Weilenmann, Hans Ulrich ^a   Ihssen, Julian ^a   Bassin, Claudio ^a   Egli, Thomas ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CHEMOSTATS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISINFECTION; GROWTH KINETICS; POTABLE WATER; SOLAR ENERGY;

CHEMOSTAT-CULTIVATED CELLS; DISINFECTION METHOD; SLOW-GROWING CELLS; STATIONARY-PHASE BACTERIA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

DRINKING WATER; SIGMA FACTOR RPOS;

COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DISINFECTION; DRINKING WATER; GROWTH RATE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLAR RADIATION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISINFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI MG1655; GROWTH RATE; HEAT TREATMENT; IRRADIATION; NONHUMAN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLAR RADIATION; STRESS; SUNLIGHT; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA; DISINFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; HEAT; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGMA FACTOR; SUNLIGHT; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33646092543     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.4.2586-2593.2006     Document Type: Article

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