title: Negative enrichment procedure for isolation of Legionella pneumophila from seeded cooling tower water.
abstract: A negative enrichment procedure was developed which was capable of isolating Legionella pneumophila directly from seeded air-conditioning cooling tower water onto laboratory media. This procedure was based on an 8-h incubation under conditions that were bactericidal to the indigenous water microflora but merely bacteriostatic to L. pneumophila.
mesh_terms: D000389:Air Conditioning; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D001431:Bacteriological Techniques; D003470:Culture Media; D007875:Legionella / Q000254:growth & development / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D014871:Water Microbiology
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D003470:Culture Media