The effect of free chlorine onEscherichia coli populations |
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Authors: | Dr. Kathleen M. Verville Diane S. Herson |
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Affiliation: | (1) School of Life and Health Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA;(2) Biology Department, Washington College, 21620 Chestertown, Maryland, USA |
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Abstract: | The effect of free chlorine onEscherichia coli populations was studied by chlorination of a population of 105 cells/ml. This cell density was low enough for the free-to-combined chlorine ratio to be 6.01 or greater. The predominance of free chlorine resulted in rapid and complete population death.Survivors obtained by dechlorination prior to complete population death were recovered equally well on nonselective and selective media. Although this suggests that survivors are not injured, evidence of survivor injury was observed.Colonies resulting from growth of these survivors had a smaller diameter than colonies from unchlornated controls. This suggests that the chlorinated cells have an increased lag and provides indirect evidence of survivor injury. Injury was indicated directly by an increase in the lag time of surviving cells in slide culture. Variability in the severity of free-chlorine-induced injury was indicated by a broadened range in the survivor lag times. |
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