APPLICATION OF CONDUCTANCE TECHNIQUES TO THE DETECTION OF THERMOPHILIC CAMPYLOBACTER SPP. IN RIVER WATER

Citation
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
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology
Journal title
ISSN journal
03781097
Volume
168
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
99 - 104
Database
ISI
SICI code
0378-1097(1998)168:1<99:AOCTTT>2.0.ZU;2-Z
Abstract
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. (C) 1998 Federation of European Microbiological Societies. Published b y Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.