Rapid Detection of Bacteria in Drinking Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants

摘要: Water systems are inherently vulnerable to physical, chemical, and biological threats that might compromise a systems’ ability reliably deliver safe water. The of water supply provide its customers can be compromised by destroying or disrupting key physical elements the system. However, contamination is generally viewed as most serious potential terrorist threat systems. Chemical agents could spread throughout distribution system result in sickness death among consumers for some presence contaminant not known until emergency rooms report an increase patients with particular set symptoms. Even without health impacts, just knowledge had been breached seriously undermine consumer confidence public supplies. Therefore rapidly detect especially microbiological highly desirable. authors discuss technique identifying based on ATP bioluminescence. This assay allows estimation bacterial populations within minutes applied using local platform. Previous ATP-based methods require 1 h, l have sensitivity 100,000 cells detection. improved method discussed here 100 times more sensitive, requires one-hundredth sample volume, over 10 faster then standard method. believe this has great deal application situations which compromised.