This document specifies a method for the detection, semi-quantitative and quantitative (MPN)
enumeration of thermotolerantCampylobacterspecies.
The method can be applied to all kinds of waters including: drinking water, ground water and well
water, fresh, brackish and saline surface water, swimming pools, spa and hydrotherapy pools,
recreational waters, agricultural waters and runoff, untreated and treated wastewater and also sand
and other sediments.
This method can be used for the detection ofCampylobacterspecies in a specified sample volume. Clean
water samples with low turbidity can be membrane filtered for either a qualitative method, semiquantitative
or quantitative (MPN) method. Water samples with higher turbidity, such as primary
and secondary wastewater effluents and sediments, are analysed using the same qualitative, semiquantitative
or quantitative MPN method by direct inoculation of material into bottles or tubes.
Sediments can be suspended in a suitable diluent or inoculated directly into enrichment broths.
Users wishing to employ this method are expected to verify its performance for the particular matrix
under their own laboratory conditions.Cross References:ISO 19458ISO 8199ISO 11133ISO 13843All current amendments available at time of purchase are included with the purchase of this document.