TY - JOUR
T1 - A comparison of 2 laboratory methods to test dental unit waterline water quality
AU - Porteous, Nuala
AU - Sun, Yuyu
AU - Dang, Shichien
AU - Schoolfield, John
N1 - Funding Information:
Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R01 DE018707-05. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
PY - 2013/11
Y1 - 2013/11
N2 - The performance of 2 American Public Health Association standard laboratory methods, the R2A spread plate and the SimPlateTM for heterotrophic plate count, for quantifying heterotrophic microorganisms in dental waterline samples was evaluated. Microbial counts were underestimated on SimPlateTM compared with R2A, and the results indicated a poor correlation between the 2 methods.
AB - The performance of 2 American Public Health Association standard laboratory methods, the R2A spread plate and the SimPlateTM for heterotrophic plate count, for quantifying heterotrophic microorganisms in dental waterline samples was evaluated. Microbial counts were underestimated on SimPlateTM compared with R2A, and the results indicated a poor correlation between the 2 methods.
KW - Dental unit waterline contamination
KW - Dental unit waterline monitoring
KW - Dental unit waterlines
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U2 - 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2013.07.010
DO - 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2013.07.010
M3 - Article
C2 - 24054735
AN - SCOPUS:84885383062
VL - 77
SP - 206
EP - 208
JO - Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
JF - Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
SN - 0732-8893
IS - 3
ER -