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SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE VIABILITY OF SEWAGE BACTERIA IN RELATION TO SELF‐PURIFICATION OF MUSSELS
Author(s) -
SHERWOOD H. P.
Publication year - 1952
Publication title -
proceedings of the society for applied bacteriology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.889
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1365-2672
pISSN - 0370-1778
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2672.1952.tb00004.x
Subject(s) - bacteria , aeration , sewage , biology , portable water purification , enterobacter aerogenes , seawater , escherichia coli , microbiology and biotechnology , ecology , environmental engineering , environmental science , biochemistry , genetics , gene
SUMMARY: Autoclaved sea water and water removed from the shell cavity of mussels supported the growth of coli‐aerogenes bacteria. Attempts to reproduce conditions which had favored multiplication of coli‐aerogenes bacteria in purified mussels failed. ‘Enrichment’ of sea water by repeated re‐use for storage of successive lots of mussels, in conjunction with sand filtration and aeration under conditions equivalent to 60 weeks of approved purification, did not promote the growth of coli‐aerogenes bacteria. A culture of Salmonella typhi and Salm. paratyphi B survived for a few days only in sea water favourable to the slow multiplication of Bacterium coli type I.