Escherichia coli

Control Culture (Identification of Foodborne Bacterial Pathogens by Gene Probes: Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli: Heat-Stable Enterotoxin (Human), Heat-Stable Enterotoxin (Porcine), and Heat-Labile Enterotoxin. Washington, DC:US Food & Drug Administration, Bacteriological Analytical Manual Online Chapt. 24, 2001; Fecal Coliforms in Sewage Sludge (Biosolids) by Multiple-Tube Fermenatation using A-1 medium. Washington, DC:Environmental Protection Agency, EPA EPA Method 1681, 2005; Salmonella in Sewage Sludge (Biosolids) by Modified Semisolid Rappaport-Vassiliadis (MSRV) Medium. Washington, DC:Environmental Protection Agency, EPA EPA Method 1682, 2005). Control strain (Methodology for the Serum Bactericidal test: Approved Guideline. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute, CLSI M21-A; Methods for Determining Bactericidal Activity of Antimicrobial Agents; Approved Guideline. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute, CLSI M26-A; Procedures for the Recovery and Identification of Parasites from the Intestinal Tract: Approved Guideline - 2nd Edition. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute, CLSI M28-A2). Detection of coliform bacteria (Enumeration of Escherichia coli and the Coliform Bacteria: LST-MUG Method for Detecting E.coli in chilled or Frozen Foods Exclusive of Bivalve Mollucan Sellfish. Washington, DC:US Food & Drug Administration, Bacteriological Analytical Manual Online Chapt. 4.II.3, 2002;Salmonella in Foods. Gaithersburg, MD:AOAC International, AOAC "Official Methods of Analysis of the AOAC International" 991.38;Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs-- Horizontal method for the enumeration of coagulase-positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus and other species)--Part3: Detection and MPN technique for low numbers. Geneva (Switzerland):International Organization for Standardization/ANSI, ISO ISO 6888-3:2003; Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs --- Horizontal method for the determination of low numbers of presumptive Bacillus cereus --- Most probable number technique and detection method. London, UK:British Standards Institution, British Standard BS EN ISO 21871:2006). Evaluation of Mueller-Hinton agar(Protocols for Evaluating Dehydrated Mueller-Hinton Agar; Approved Standard. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute, CLSI M6-A2; US General Services Administration Mueller Hinton Medium, dehydrated. Washington, DC:US General Services Administration, Commercial Item Description A-A-50904A, 1986). Media testing (Quality Control for Commercially Prepared Microbiological Culture Media; Approved Standard - 3rd Edition. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute, CLSI M22-A3; Food microbiology. Method 12.3: Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs -- Horizontal method for the enumeration of coagulase-positive staphylococci (Staphyloccus aureus and other species)--Detection and MPN technique for low numbers. Sydney, NSW, Australia:Standards Australia, Standards Australia AS 5013.12.3:2004;Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs--Guidelines on preparation and production of culture media-- Part 2: Practical guidelines on performance testing of culture media.. Geneva (Switzerland):International Organization for Standardization/ANSI, ISO ISO 11133-2:2003; Medical microbiology-- Culture media -- Part 3: Dip slides for microbiological urine analysis. Berlin, Germany:Deutsches Institut fur Normung, DIN DIN 58942-3: 2003; Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs --- Horizontal method for the detection and enumeration of Listeria monocytogenes --- Part 1: Detection method, Annex B [BS 5763-18:1997]. London, UK:British Standards Institution, British Standard BS EN ISO 11290-1:1997; Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs --- Horizontal method for the enumeration of beta-glucuronidase-positive Escherichia coli -- Part 3: Most probable number techniques using 5-bromo-4-chloro-3-indolyl-beta-D-glucuronide. London, UK:British Standards Institution, British Standard DD ISO/TS 16649-3:2005; Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs --- Guidelines on preparation and production of culture media --- Part 2: Practical guidelines on performance testing of culture media - Annex B: Recommended test microorganisms for commonly used culture media. London, UK:British Standards Institution, British Standard DD CEN ISO/TS 11133:2003). Quality control strain (Quality Control of Microbiological Transport Systems; Approved Standard. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute, CLSI M40-A). Susceptibility disc testing ( Performance Standards for Antimicrobial Disk Susceptibility Tests; Approved Standard - 9th Edition. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute, CLSI M2-A9; Methods for Antimicrobial Disk Susceptibility Testing of Bacteria Isolated from Aquatic Animals. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute, CLSI M42-A; Methods for Antimicrobial Dilution and Disk susceptibility Testing of Infrequently Isolated or Fastidious Bacteria: Proposed Guideline. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute, CLSI M45-A; Methods for Broth Dilution Susceptibility Testing of Bacteria Isolated from Aquatic Animals. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute, CLSI M49-A). Susceptibility disc testing chloramphenico, colistin colimycin, gentamicins, kanamycin, nalidixic acid, neomycin, tetracycline (Antimicrob Agents Chemother 1973, 3: 418-424, PubMed: 4790600). Susceptibility testing (Methods for Dilution Antimicrobial Susceptibility Tests for Bacteria that Grow Aerobically; Approved Standard - 7th Edition. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute, CLSI M7-A8; Methods for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Anaerobic Bacteria. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute, CLSI M11-A7; Performance Standards for Antimicrobial Disk and Dilution Susceptibility Tests for Bacteria Isolated from Animals; Approved Standard - 2nd Edition. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute, CLSI M31-A3; Performance Standards for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing; Sixteenth Informational Supplement. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute, CLSI M100-S20, 2007; Evaluation of Lots of Dehydrated Mueller-Hinton Broth for Antimicrobial Susceptibility testing; Proposed Guideline. Wayne, PA. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute, CLSI M32-P; Medical microbiology; methods for the determination of susceptibility of pathogens (except mycobacteria) to antimicrobial agents: agar diffusion test. Berlin, Germany: Deutsches Institut fur Normung, DIN 58940-3: 1989; Medical microbiology -- Methods for the determination of susceptibility of pathogens (except mycobacteria) to antimicrobial agents-- Part 7: Determination of the minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC) with the aid of microdilution. Berlin, Germany:Deutsches Institut fur Normung, DIN DIN 58940-7: 1994; Part 81: Microdilution; Special requirements for testing of non-fastidious bacteria. Berlin, Germany: Deutsches Institut fur Normung, DIN 58940-81: 2002;Clinical laboratory testing and in vitro diagnostic test systems --- Susceptibility testing of infectious agents and evaluation of performance of antimicrobial susceptibility test devices --- Part 1: Reference method for testing the in vitro activity of antimicrobial agents against rapidly growing aerobic bacteria involved in infectious diseases. London, UK:British Standards Institution, British Standard BS EN ISO 20776-1:2006). Control strain (Aeromonas in Finished Water by Membrane Filtration using Ampicillin-Dextrin Agar with Vancomycin (ADA-V). Washington, DC:Environmental Protection Agency ,EPA EPA Method 1605, 2001).