C. Thomas et al., APPLICATION OF CONDUCTANCE TECHNIQUES TO THE DETECTION OF THERMOPHILIC CAMPYLOBACTER SPP. IN RIVER WATER, FEMS microbiology letters, 168(1), 1998, pp. 99-104
A study of basal media identified Campylobacter enrichment broth, with
(CEB+) and without (CEB) antibiotic supplement, as a suitable medium
for the detection and enumeration of Campylobacter jejuni, C. coli and
C. lavi within aqueous samples via conductance methodology. Despite a
pparent differences in conductivity profiles between species in the pr
esence of antibiotics, no significant differences (P<0.05) were detect
ed between detection times for each species tested. CEB+ was successfu
lly employed within a combined enrichment and conductance protocol to
the detection of C. jejuni from river water at a concentration of 1 CF
U ml(-1) from 83% of samples in under 39 h and thus demonstrated an im
provement over an applied conventional membrane filtration technique.
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