ISOLATION OF YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA FROM DRINKING-WATER SUPPLIES IN SOUTH BAVARIA
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 180 (1) , 76-84
Abstract
Drinking water samples in South Bavaria were examined for yersiniae between Oct. 1982 and March 1983. Y. enterocolitica (Y.e.) was isolated from 82 of 1650 samples of central water supplies and from 42 of 779 samples of decentralized water supplies. Three strains were serotype 03 but indole-positive, thus, differing from the indole-negative human pathogenic serotype 03 which is most frequent in western Europe. No strain was serotype 09. Y.e. was more often isolated from water samples which were shown according to the German drinking water decree to contain Escherichia coli, coliforms or increased colony counts. Thus, Y.e., does not belong to the saprophytic soil bacteria but reaches the drinking water by fecal pollution. As compared with Endo-agar, CIN Agar was the preferable medium, with a 3 times higher isolation rate. Y. intermedia and Y. frederiksenii were isolated from 20 and 23 samples, respectively.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Interaction between Hela cells and epidemiologically defined strains of Yersinia enterocolitica isolated in the Federal Republic of GermanyZentralblatt für Bakteriologie, Mikrobiologie und Hygiene. 1. Abt. Originale. A, Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Infektionskrankheiten und Parasitologie, 1981