IS THE EIJKMAN TEST AN AID IN THE DETECTION OF FECAL POLLUTION OF WATER?
- 1 August 1930
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Bacteriology
- Vol. 20 (2) , 139-150
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.20.2.139-150.1930
Abstract
Only a small % of the Bacillus coli from human feces produced gas in 48 hrs. in glucose-peptone broth at 46[degree] (Eijkman test). Many strains produced gas in 24 hrs. in the Eijkman test, but 48 hrs. were necessary to include all gas formers. Many "typical" B. coli strains from water from a polluted steam failed to grow in the Eijkman broth at 46[degree]. The Eijkman test did not eliminate all positive tests due to B. aerogenes and citrate-positive B. coli. Only B. coli (never B. aerogenes) was found in human feces.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
- The Elimination of False Presumptive TestsJournal AWWA, 1928
- A Culture Medium for Differentiating Organisms of Typhoid-Colon Aerogenes Groups and for Isolation of Certain Fungi: With Colored PlateThe Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1926
- A Comparative Study of Sodium Citrate and Tartrate in the Differentiation of B. Coli in Water AnalysisPathogens and Global Health, 1926
- The Viability of B. Coli and B. Aerogenes in SoilThe Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1926
- Medium for inhibition of spreaders and differentiation of B. coli and B. aerogenesThe Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1924
- CORRELATION OF CITRATE UTILIZATION BY MEMBERS OF THE COLON-AEROGENES GROUP WITH OTHER DIFFERENTIAL CHARACTERISTICS AND WITH HABITATJournal of Bacteriology, 1924
- Bacteria fermenting lactose and their significance in water analysis, by Max Levine.Published by Smithsonian Institution ,1921
- THE ELIMINATION OF SPURIOUS PRESUMPTIVE TESTS FOR B. COLI IN WATER BY THE USE OF GENTIAN VIOLETJournal of Bacteriology, 1918