Handbook of Water and Wastewater MicrobiologyDuncan Mara, Nigel J. Horan Elsevier, 7 ago 2003 - 832 pagine "Access to safe water is a fundamental human need and therefore a basic human right" --Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary General Edited by two world-renowned scientists in the field, The Handbook of Water and Wastewater Microbiology provides a definitive and comprehensive coverage of water and wastewater microbiology. With contributions from experts from around the world, this book gives a global perspective on the important issues faced in the provision of safe drinking water, the problems of dealing with aquatic pollution and the processes involved in wastewater management. Starting with an introductory chapter of basic microbiological principles, The Handbook of Water and Wastewater Microbiology develops these principles further, ensuring that this is the essential text for process engineers with little microbiological experience and specialist microbiologists alike.
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... faecal Escherichia coli from humans and animals by ribotyping. Applied and ... coliforms–everywhere (but not a cell to drink). Water Quality International ... faecal pollution. Journal of Applied Bacteriology 55,349–357. Mara, D.D. and ...
... fecal wastes, and aquatic environments necessitates methods that span a wide ... E. coli and is the basis for a variety of detection methods (Feng and Hartman ... Coliforms and fecal coliforms are facultative anaerobes, meaning they can ...
... fecal streptococci. Audicana et al. (1995) evaluated the effect of sodium ... coliform detection media. However, the use of inhibitors is not without ... coliforms, can become stressed or altered physiologically in natural waters ...
... fecal coliforms in drinking and surface waters. It has been used to enumerate petroleumdegrading bacteria (Mills et al., 1978), phenol and toluene-degrading bacteria (Fries et al., 1997) and Staphylococcus aureus (Bennett and Lancette ...
... E. coli on mTEC medium (USEPA, 2000). In this in situ test the membrane filter with colonial growth is transferred to a pad saturated with a medium called urease substrate medium. After a short incubation period target colonies remain ...
Sommario
Part 2 Water and Excreta Related Diseases | 175 |
Part 3 Microbiology of Wastewater Treatment | 315 |
Part 4 Drinking Water Microbiology | 611 |
Useful Websites | 794 |
Index | 797 |