• A fecal coliform (British: faecal coliform) is a facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped, gram-negative, non-sporulating bacterium. Coliform bacteria generally...
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    can be distinguished from most other coliforms by its ability to ferment lactose at 44 °C in the fecal coliform test, and by its growth and color reaction...
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  • The coliform index is a rating of the purity of water based on a count of fecal bacteria. It is one of many tests done to assure sufficient water quality...
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    danger to humans but also to many species of animals. The levels of fecal coliform bacteria from human waste in the river near Varanasi are more than 100...
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    freshwater beaches. It is believed to provide a higher correlation than fecal coliform with many of the human pathogens often found in city sewage. Parte AC...
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  • fecal coliform results had come back positive on the May 21 samples, and though testing was not complete on the May 22 samples, evidence of coliform growth...
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    of pollution comes from fecal coliform bacteria, several species of bacteria found in human and animal feces. Fecal coliform bacteria enter the river...
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    surrounding the beach is heavily polluted, and swimming should be avoided. Fecal coliform was recorded in the water in 2013 at levels of 1455 per 100 mL, far...
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    chloride, potassium, calcium, manganese, magnesium) Microorganisms such as fecal coliform bacteria (Escherichia coli), Cryptosporidium, and Giardia lamblia; see...
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  • dogs, monkeys, vultures, snakes, toads and humans. It is considered a fecal coliform. P. shigelloides is a global distributed species, found globally outside...
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  • Creek is listed by the Environmental Protection Agency as containing fecal coliforms, although not in a great enough quantity to dangerously increase the...
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    technology for conventional pollutants" (BCT) standards for reducing fecal coliform pathogen. Lastly, the court ordered the EPA to provide additional analysis...
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    Natural Resources reported significant drop of fecal coliform level in the waters around the beach. Fecal coliform level in Manila Bay dropped from 7.16 million...
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    that suffers from the city's poor waste treatment. In its waters, "fecal coliform bacteria sometimes spike at 16 times the Brazilian government's 'satisfactory'...
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    describes a crossing «Lac Saint Louys». In 2014 there was a report of fecal coliform flowing into the lake from a Beaconsfield creek, and of PCBs flowing...
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    "search and rescue" situations, serious medical emergencies, high fecal coliform count, and chemical spills (either inside the pool itself or over the...
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  • indicators are total coliforms, fecal coliforms, E. coli, and enterococci. The presence of bacteria commonly found in human feces, termed coliform bacteria (e...
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    report also said that canal water regularly violated federal limits on fecal coliform counts, an indicator of high bacteria levels. The canal has been dredged...
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    Tens of millions of people The most sacred river to Hindus. Levels of fecal coliform bacteria from human waste in the river near Varanasi are more than 100...
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    Enterobacter is a member of the coliform group of bacteria. It does not belong to the fecal coliforms (or thermotolerant coliforms) group of bacteria, unlike...
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  • total coliforms, or a subset of this group, fecal coliforms, which are found in the intestinal tracts of warm blooded animals. Total coliforms were used...
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    ESH-ə-RIK-ee-ə KOH-lye) is a gram-negative, facultative anaerobic, rod-shaped, coliform bacterium of the genus Escherichia that is commonly found in the lower...
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    pollutants at variable strengths and that it can contain levels of fecal coliform bacteria several times greater than is typically found in untreated...
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    rural streams by fecal coliform bacteria is a widespread issue. Since fecal coliform bacteria live in the gut of warm-blooded animals, fecal contamination...
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    to drink," according to Carroll County government official, due to "fecal coliform bacteria levels." The newspaper also recalled that in 1976 Carroll County...
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    produces gas from lactose within 48 hours. The presence of some coliforms indicate fecal contamination. The term "IMViC" is an acronym for each of these...
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  • a liquid culture medium used in microbiology for the detection of fecal coliforms in foods, treated wastewater and seawater bays using the most probable...
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  • test for coliforms. Gas production serves as both a presumptive test and a confirmatory medium. Fecal coliforms are distinguished from coliforms by growth...
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    agar is to monitor food or water for fecal contamination, which is indicated by the presence of fecal coliforms in the Enterobacterales order such as...
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    2.66 mg/L; Nitrate 0.11 mg/L; Nitrite 0.0045 mg/L; Fecal Coliform 16 MPN/100; and Total Coliform 110 MPN/100. The assessment of quality status determined...
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