Water quality control trials: statistical tables for direct comparison between membrane filtration bacterial counts and the multiple tube method with a description of the bacteriological method
- 1 October 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Epidemiology and Infection
- Vol. 101 (2) , 361-366
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0950268800054303
Abstract
SUMMARY: Experiments in the quality control of water samples are being conducted in the Public Health Laboratory Service and the water industry in the United Kingdom. The number of distributions which have been made is 7 and 92 laboratories are now participating. The methods used for preparing and distributing samples are described. Some participating laboratories use the multiple tube method and some use membrane filtration to assess the presence of coliforms and Escherichia coli. The results are, therefore, a mixture of estimated numbers and direct colony counts.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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