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Edvotek™ Water Quality Testing I: Chromogenic Analysis of Water Bacteria Contaminants
Students will test for coliforms in simulated contaminated water, and can test water samples from the environment.
Supplier: Edvotek™ 951
Includes: instructions, BactoBeads™, ReadyPour™ Agar, fluorescent reagents, Petri dishes, inoculating loops, sterile swabs, microtubes
Requires : Longwave UV lamp, microscope, slides and coverslips
Description
Safe drinking water is vitally important to health. Both pathogenic and harmless bacteria can be found in the guts of mammals and birds. Presence of coliforms in water is an indicator of fecal contamination.
- Testing for coliforms, including E. coli, using color and fluorescent reagents
- Extension activity includes Gram Stain test that can be performed on the collected samples
- Test duration: complete in 30 minutes and grow overnight
Specifications
| Instructions, BactoBeads™, coliform detection broth, indole detection reagent, nutrient broth, sterile water, tubes, sterile pipets, and inoculating loops | |
| Complete in 30 minutes and grow overnight | |
| 10 Lab Groups |
| Long wave UV lamp | |
| Some components require refrigerator storage. |
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