Comparison of culture-based methods to enumerate Escherichia coli in tropical and temperate freshwaters

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 243-248

  Prats, J ^a,b   Garcia Armisen, T ^a   Larrea, J ^b   Servais, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAVANA   (Cuba)

Author keywords

Chromogenic media; Escherichia coli enumeration; Fluorogenic media; Glucuronidase; Microplate; Plate counts; Temperate freshwaters; Tropical freshwaters

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; QUALITY CONTROL; TROPICS; WATER;

CHROMOGENIC MEDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI ENUMERATION; FLUOROGENIC MEDIUM; FLUOROGENICS; FRESH WATER; GLUCURONIDASE; MICROPLATES; PLATE COUNT; TEMPERATE FRESHWATER; TROPICAL FRESHWATER;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

CELL CULTURE; CHROMOGENICS; CONTAMINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUCOSE; LINEAR REGRESSION; MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; ISLAND; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOGLINEAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PLATE COUNT; TEMPERATE DECIDUOUS FOREST;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CUBA; GREATER ANTILLES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 38349147360     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: 1472765X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-765X.2007.02292.x     Document Type: Article

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