title: [Examination of drinking water used in livestock production. Microbiological and physico-chemical methods. Ready to use test kits  in field experiments].
abstract: Livestock health care service is very much involved and interested in surveillance of the drinking water as well. However, in order to examine the water immediately "on the fly", test kits have to be provided, which offer results comparable to these obtained in the laboratories according to official prescription. The German Army was confronted with a similar situation during the secently performed mission in crisis regions. At the early state of a mission usually laboratory equipment is not yet established. Therefore a set of test kits was compiled suitable for mobile microbiological examination of drinking water. This set was excessively examined comparison with reference methods. In conclusion it is shown, that the mobile set gains equal or even better results compared to those obtained according to legally prescribed standard procedures.
authors.affiliation: Zentrales Institut des Sanitätsdienstes der Bundeswehr, Laborabteilung Veterinärmedizin, Kiel-Kronshagen.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sassen
mesh_terms: D000822:Animal Husbandry / Q000592:standards*; D000818:Animals; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000302:isolation & purification; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008889:Military Personnel; D011933:Reagent Kits, Diagnostic; D014871:Water Microbiology; D014881:Water Supply / Q000032:analysis / Q000592:standards*
chemical_list: D011933:Reagent Kits, Diagnostic