Abstract
Eliminating rosolic acid from M-FC medium improves the MFC procedure by allowing higher fecal coliform colony recoveries with greater ease in counting. Samples of unchlorinated and chlorinated domestic sewage, creek, lake, and river water were analyzed for fecal coliforms by standard procedures. Results of 200 comparisons of fecal coliform counts on M-FC medium without and with rosolic acid showed that higher counts were obtained 71% of the time when rosolic acid was excluded without an overgrowth of background colonies. Results from analyzing chlorinated sewage showed that eliminating rosolic acid improved the recovery of fecal coliform bacteria by 49%. A total of 1,675 blue colonies and 766 nonblue colonies were verified. Of the 1,675 blue colonies, 1,566 were confirmed as fecal coliform bacteria, for a verification of 93.5%. The percent verification of nonblue colonies as noncoliform bacteria was 84.2% (644/766).
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