a large group of bacteria inhabiting the intestinal tract of humans and animals that may cause disease and whose presence in water is an indicator of faecal pollution
Examples of 'coliform bacteria' in a sentence
coliform bacteria
All wells were contaminated by coliform bacteria.
Jorge Arturo Benitez, Maurilio Lara-Flores, Victor Manuel Osorio, Leonel Amabilis,Joshua Ben-Arie, Jaime Rendon, Jimmy Vidal-Maldonado, Brenda Trinidad Cen-Poot, KarinaSonda-Santos 2011, 'AN ASSESSMENT OF WATER QUALITY (NH4+, NO2-, NO3-, TP, SO4, COLIFORM BACTERIA AND HEAVYMETALS) OF THE MAIN WATER SUPPLIES IN THE STATE OF CAMPECHE', Tropical and Subtropical Agroecosystemshttp://www.revista.ccba.uady.mx/ojs/index.php/TSA/article/view/816. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Ľubomír Lopašovský, Eva Kováčová, Simona Kunová, Alica Bobková, Lucia Zeleňáková,Marek Bobko, Mária Kušnierová, Pavol Bajzík 2013, 'SAFETY OF DELICACY PRODUCTS IN TRADE NETWORK', Journal of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Food Scienceshttp://www.jmbfs.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/16_jmbfs_lopasovsky_fbp_f.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Coliform bacteria were not present in heat-treated milk samples.
Simona Kunová, Jozef Golian, Lucia Zeleňáková, Ľubomír Lopašovský, Juraj Čuboň, PeterHaščík, Miroslava Kačániová 2017, 'Microbiological quality of fresh and heat treated cow's milk during storage', Potravinarstvohttp://www.potravinarstvo.com/journal1/index.php/potravinarstvo/article/view/799. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Presence of coliform bacteria was determined by this method.
Ľubomír Lopašovský, Simona Kunová, Alica Bobková, Lucia Zeleňáková, Marek Bobko 2014, 'CONTROL OF OPERATIONAL HYGIENE IN FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS', Journal of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Food Scienceshttp://www.jmbfs.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/8_jmbfs_lopasovsky_2014_fs.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Coliform bacteria were present in almost all the spices sampled.
Noel Bakobie, Amponsah Samuel Addae, Abudu Ballu Duwiejuah, Samuel Jerry Cobbina,Solomon Miniyila 2017, 'Microbial profile of common spices and spice blends used in Tamale, Ghana', International Journal of Food Contaminationhttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40550-017-0055-9. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Fortunately, the coliform bacteria was not detected in all treatments.
El-Awady Aml A., Saber Wesam I. A., Abdel Hamid Nabil M., Hassan Hanaa A. 2016, 'Increasing Antioxidant Content of Broccoli Sprouts Using Essential Oils During ColdStorage', Agriculturehttp://www.degruyter.com/view/j/agri.2016.62.issue-3/agri-2016-0012/agri-2016-0012.xml?format=INT. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)