Affiliation:
1. Center for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia 30333
Abstract
Screening enrichments of surface water specimens by means of a polyvalent fluorescent antibody reagent for the salmonellae yielded approximately 60% more positive specimens than was obtained by cultural procedures. It is not known what fraction of the excess of fluorescent antibody-positive over culturally positive specimens represents staining of non-salmonellae or non-arizonae as opposed to the staining of non-cultivatable organisms of these two genera. Cotton gauze and rayon-polypropylene fiber swabs were equally sensitive for collecting salmonellae from the streams examined. Tetrathionate enrichment incubated at 41.5 C appeared to be superior to selenite-cystine for isolation of salmonellae from surface waters. Twenty-eight serotypes of
Salmonella
and two serotypes of
Arizona
were identified in the 121 positive specimens. In water rated moderately polluted, 65% of all specimens tested were positive; in minimally polluted waters, 38% were positive; and in unpolluted streams, 44% were positive.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics,General Immunology and Microbiology,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,General Medicine
Reference18 articles.
1. American Public Health Association. 1971. Standard methods for the examination of water and wastewater 13th ed. American Public Health Association Inc. New York.
2. Center for Disease Control. 1971. Salmonella surveillance report annual summary for 1970. Center for Disease Control Atlanta Ga. 1971.
3. Prolonged Salmonella contamination of a recreational lake by runoff waters;Claudon D. G.;Appl. Microbiol.,1971
4. Edwards P. R. and W. H. Ewing. 1962. Identification of Enterobacteriaceae. Burgess Publishing Co. Minneapolis.
5. Recovery of bacterial pathogens from high quality surface waters;Fair J. F.;Water Resources Res.,1967
Cited by
25 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献，注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献，订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献