date:Aug 24, 2018
the bacteria as contaminants have many ways of slipping past detection.
Laws require that farmers regularly send irrigation water samples to certified labs for safety testing. These labs use sensitive tests but they take about a day or two to run.
Now, a team of researchers at Cornell University, Iowa State University, and the organization Global Good/Intellectual Ventures has developed a sensitive, bacteriophage-based technique to detect one particular E. colistrain in water in less than half