Talk:Coliform bacteria

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Bibliography

Craun, G. F., Berger, P. S., & Calderon, R. L. (1997). Coliform bacteria and waterborne disease outbreaks. Journal‐American Water Works Association, 89(3), 96-104

This is a peer-reviewed scientific journal and is a reliable source for this article. It is a secondary source with a variety of different contributors. This article goes into depth about the effects of coliform bacteria, which is not touched on in this article so it would be a good area to improve on.

Jeon, D. J., Ligaray, M., Kim, M., Kim, G., Lee, G., Pachepsky, Y. A., ... & Cho, K. H. (2019). Evaluating the influence of climate change on the fate and transport of fecal coliform bacteria using the modified SWAT model. Science of the Total Environment, 658, 753-762.

This is a peer-reviewed scientific journal and a reliable source to be used in this article. It is a secondary source with several different authors and published within the last 5 years.

Tominaga, T. (2019). Rapid detection of coliform bacteria using a lateral flow test strip assay. Journal of microbiological methods, 160, 29-35.

This is a peer-reviewed journal specifically for describing methods in microbiology. This is a good source to include in this article because it expands on the topic of how coliform bacteria are detected in lab. ZM9900 (talk) 17:19, 4 February 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Merge With Fecal coliforms

This page needs to be merged with fecal coliforms and linked to feces and drinking water

Agreed, added merge stub a few weeks ago. S-man64 09:57, 15 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Disagree. A fecal coliform is only one type of coliform, so it would not be appropriate to merge as proposed. There are many coliforms that are not fecal coliforms. Reference EPA's definition:

Total Coliforms are a group of closely related, mostly harmless bacteria that live in soil and water as well as the gut of animals. The extent to which total coliforms are present in the source water can indicate the general quality of that water and the likelihood that the water is fecally contaminated. Total coliforms are currently controlled in drinking water regulations (i.e., Total Coliform Rule) because their presence above the standard indicates problems in treatment or in the distribution system. EPA requires all public water systems to monitor for total coliforms in distribution systems. If total coliforms are found, then the public water system must further analyze that total coliform-positive sample to determine if specific types of coliforms (i.e., fecal coliforms or E. coli) are present.

Thus I've removed the merge stub. --Microbiojen 18:27, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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