Category: Microbiology

With thanks to Everyone involved with the publication of our Blue book; The Microbiology of Sewage Sludge – Part 3 – Methods for the isolation and enumeration of Escherichia coli (including E. coli O157:H7)

Thanks to Everyone involved with the publication of our blue book for Bacteriological Swabs; the first with the redesigned front cover. Download here!

Thank you to Abby Tyler, South West Water, who identified that the copy of MoSS Part 4 available on the Microbiology page was not the latest version available in the Library – both now have links to the 2004 version.

With thanks to Andrew Tonkin, SES Water for highlighting the missing publication from our Microbiology of Drinking Water Series. Part 4 – Methods for the Isolation and enumeration of coliform bacteria and Escherichia coli (including E. coli O157 H7) was published in 2016 and otherwise not published in our online Library.  Thank you also to Jonathan Cannon, Drinking Water Inspectorate and Aleksandra Rafalska, Wessex Water Scientific Centre for also reporting this issue.  Download Here!

With thanks to Peter Moon (Princess Royal Hospital) for reporting a broken link for the Methods for the isolation and enumeration of sulphite-reducing clostridia and Clostridium perfringens by membrane filtration. Download here!

A republication correcting an erroneous date. Download here!

With thanks to Deborah Charles (Public Health Wales, Microbiology Cardiff) for reporting that the Microbiology of Drinking Water Part 9 was missing from the Microbiology MODW Series Method Page. Methods for the isolation and enumeration of Salmonella and Shigella by selective enrichment, membrane filtration and multiple tube-most probable number techniques is now back in the table. Download Here!

Thank you to Wendy Symonds (Northern Hygiene Laboratories Ltd) and Alannah Leanard (Complete Laboratory Solutions) for bringing to our attention that we hadn’t quite reviewed all the dates correctly in the 2020 version of this publication. Furthermore, we can confirm that the only material change for this method is the change from Columbia Blood Agar to Columbia Agar. Download here!

With thanks to Ruair McHugh and Robyn Reddington of Complete Laboratory Solutions for noticing an error in the 2015 publication of Part 6 -Methods for the isolation and enumeration of sulphite-reducing clostridia and Clostridium perfringens by membrane filtration from our Microbiology of Drinking Water series. The agar cited in the 2015 revision (Columbia Blood Agar) should have been Columbia agar as it had been in our 2010 publication of the same. Download here!

With thanks to Everyone who contributed to our first blue book for the Identification of Microorganisms using MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry. A fantiastic and innovative way to more reliably determine the identity of microorganisms isolated by culture methods. Download here!