Comparative microbial sampling from eutrophic caves in Slovenia and Slovakia using RIDACOUNT test kits

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/1827-806X.41.1.1" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/1827-806X.41.1.1</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/1827-806X.41.1.1" target="_blank" >10.5038/1827-806X.41.1.1</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Comparative microbial sampling from eutrophic caves in Slovenia and Slovakia using RIDACOUNT test kits

Original language description

RIDACOUNT test plates were used as an easy-to-handle and rapid indicator of microbial counts in karst ecosystems of several caves in Slovakia and Slovenia. All of the caves had a high organic input from water streams, tourists, roosting bat colonies or terrestrial surroundings. We sampled swabs, water and air samples to test robustness and universality of the RIDACOUNT test kit (R-Biopharm AG, Germany, http://www.r-biopharm.com/) for quantification of total bacteria, coliforms, yeast and mold. Using data from swabs (colony-forming units CFU per cm2) we proposed a scale for description of biocontamination level or superficial microbial load of cave niches. Based on this scale, surfaces of Ardovská Cave, Drienovská Cave and Stará Brzotínská Cave (Slovakia) were moderately colonized by microbes, with total microbial counts (sum of total bacterial count and total yeast and molds count) in the range of 1,001-10,000 CFU/100 cm2.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EH - Ecology - communities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/LC06066" target="_blank" >LC06066: Center for Environmental Microbiology</a><br>

Continuities

Z - Vyzkumny zamer (s odkazem do CEZ)

Publication year

2012

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Journal of Speleology

ISSN

0392-6672

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

41

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

IT - ITALY

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

1-8

UT code for WoS article

000300416200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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