Modification of an approved medium for fecal coliform detection in seawater: A-1 medium minus salicin.
Four hundred fifteen shellfish seawater samples from approved, conditionally approved, and restricted areas along the coastlines of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Maine were tested in duplicate to compare results obtained with A-1 medium (AOAC official method no. 978.23) and those obtained with A-1 medium without salicin. Four laboratories used five sets of most probable number procedures to perform the analyses. No statistically significant differences between the two media were found with the t test, the F test, or the analysis of variance.
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John
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Connecticut State Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Aquaculture, 190 Rogers Avenue. P.O. Box 97, Milford, Connecticut 06460-0097, USA. dept.agric@snet.net
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Mercuria
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Boehler
Susan
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Savina
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D000818:Animals; D003470:Culture Media / Q000737:chemistry; D004755:Enterobacteriaceae / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology*; D012623:Seawater; D012758:Shellfish / Q000382:microbiology*; D014871:Water Microbiology
D003470:Culture Media