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3. Conclusion
The cultivation of environmental samples (air, surfaces, water) remains the standard and classic method today, enabling biological control of contamination by cultivable micro-organisms only.
A wide range of new technologies are now affordable for environmental microbiology laboratories. Rapid methods, requiring a culture step, and alternative methods, directly analyzing the sample, provide more sensitive, more precise and more reproducible test results for viable micro-organisms (cultivable or non-cultivable).
If required, these methods can be used to supplement information on the quantification and identification of micro-organisms, as well as to extend the scope of research by covering the entire microbial community, viable, non-viable and non-cultivable. Some of these methods can also be fully automated, enabling increased throughput,...
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- Standard test method for Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) Content of microorganisms in water - ASTM D4012-15 - 2015
- Water quality -- Detection and quantification of Legionella spp. and/or Legionella pneumophila by concentration and genic amplification by quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) - ISO/TS 12869 - 2019
- Water quality – Detection and quantification of Legionella and/or Legionella pneumophila...
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