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Culture Methods are Essential for
Detecting AMR Bacteria in Water | |
For public health risk decisions regarding water quality, culturing antimicrobial resistant (AMR) ESBL E. coli bacteria is essential to identify bacteria that is infectious and therefore a health risk. To identify infectious bacteria, it is necessary they are detected by culture methods.
The World Health Organization does not accept genetic methods as evidence of infectious and culturable AMR bacteria or estimates of their concentrations for health risks. They prefer culture-based methods.
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WHO Tricycle Protocol for
Detecting ESBL E. coli in Water | |
The Tricycle Protocol encompasses a cross-sector “One Health” approach to contain this problem, namely by monitoring ESBL E. coli across the human, animal and environmental sectors. | |
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Who Should Be Testing for
ESBL E. coli in Water | |
When humans and animals have persistent ESBL E. coli in their gut or consume them, their infected feces can enter drinking water sources, wastewaters, healthcare facility effluent and sewerage, food crop irrigation water, other agricultural waters, poultry and other livestock production waters, and recreational waters. Even properly functioning wastewater treatment systems might not fully remove AMR ESBL E. coli.
Who should test for ESBL E. coli:
- Government agencies, health and agriculture departments and ministries
- Wastewater and sewage treatment operations
- Healthcare facilities and hospitals
- Poultry and livestock food production facilities
- Veterinary and animal agriculture feeding operations
- Other agricultural operations, such as for irrigation water
- Recreational water operators
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Aquagenx AMR ESBL E. coli Kits
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Aquagenx’s groundbreaking water quality field tests let anyone monitor AMR ESBL E. coli. Test results with our kits demonstrate excellent correlation to standard culture-based methods in the WHO Tricycle Protocol. Aquagenx AMR ESBL E. coli water quality test kits quantify ESBL E. coli in 100 mL samples. They are simple tests that are designed for on-site field testing:
- No electricity, lab, cold chain or expensive, complicated equipment required
- Easy to use for field level testing in low resource, rural, remote areas
- Ambient temperature incubation at 25° Celsius and above
- Ambient temperature test results in 20-48 hours
- Work at variable temperatures, constant temperature control not required
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Wastewater Testing with Aquagenx AMR Kits
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Our AMR ESBL E. coli test kits test groundwater and surface waters right out of the box. They can also be used to test wastewaters by following steps for diluting wastewater samples:
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WHO Guidelines for Small Water Supplies
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They focus on establishing drinking water quality regulations and standards that are health based and context appropriate; on proactively managing risks through water safety planning and sanitary inspections; and on carrying out independent surveillance.
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New Rechargeable UV Flashlight
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- No more replacing AAA batteries. Just plug the flashlight into any USB charging source and use the micro-USB charging cable that comes with the new unit.
- UV light source is a much higher performing, narrower spectrum UV Light Emitting Diode (LED)
- Lens cover over the reflector of the flashlight is a UV filter, further improving the illumination source.
This new flashlight improves the ease and quality of observations our customers can make for fluorescing test results for Total Coliforms with our CBT EC+TC Kit. | |
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