date:Aug 24, 2018
good indicators that water is contaminated.
Nugen said the team is tailoring the phage to detect pathogenic E. coli as well as bacteria that cause salmonella. The scientists have also developed a quantitative version of the technology that uses a cellulose filter that traps both the bacteria and phages. This version is able to detect a single colony forming unit of bacteria but takes about 10 hours. Nugen presented this work during a session in the Division of Environmental Chemistry on Sunday