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Heterotrophic Plate Counts and Drinking-water Safety, The Significance of HPCs for Water Quality and Human Health (WHO Emerging Issues in Water & Infectious Disease Series) by Jamie Bartram; J. A. Cotruvo; M. Exner; C. Fricker; A. Glasmacher is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Heterotrophic Plate Counts and Drinking-water Safety provides a critical assessment of the role of the Heterotrophic Plate Count (HPC) measurement in drinking water quality management. It was developed from an Expert workshop of 32 scientists convened by the World Health Organization and the WHO/NSF International Collaborating Centre for Drinking Water Safety and Treatment in Geneva, Switzerland. The workshop sponsors were the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Health Canada, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the American Waterworks Association Research Foundation. Heterotrophs are organisms, including bacteria, yeasts and moulds, that require an external source of organic carbon for growth. The HPC test (or Standard Plate Count), applied in many variants, is the internationally accepted test for measuring the hetrotrophic microorganism population in drinking water, and also other media. It measures only a fraction of the microorganisms actually present and does not distinguish between pathogens and non-pathogens. Although most, if not all, bacterial pathogens are heterotrophs, most of the microorganisms detected by the HPC test conditions are not human patho

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Author

Jamie Bartram; J. A. Cotruvo; M. Exner; C. Fricker; A. Glasmacher

Publisher

IWA Publishing (International Water Association)

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9789241562263

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Technology, Business