Bacterial Monitoring of Drinking Water Sources Using Immunofluorescence technique, Image Processing Software and Web-based Data Visualisation

• Paul Nicolae Ancuta

  National Institute of Research and Development in Mechatronics and Measurement Technique

• Anca Atanasescu

  National Institute of Research and Development in Mechatronics and Measurement Technique

• Sorin Sorea

  National Institute of Research and Development in Mechatronics and Measurement Technique

• Danut Iulian Stanciu

  National Institute of Research and Development in Mechatronics and Measurement Technique, Romania

• Irina Eugenia Lucaciu

  National Research and Development Institute for Industrial Ecology

• Catalina Stoica

  National Research and Development Institute for Industrial Ecology

• Mihai Nita-Lazar

  National Research and Development Institute for Industrial Ecology

• Alina Roxana Banciu

  National Research and Development Institute for Industrial Ecology

European organizations involved in updating water management regulations (WHO, OECD) insist in recent years on the need to improve methods for assessing and managing microbiological , physical and chemical safety of drinking water . Data obtained as a result of water quality monitoring should become a starting point for risk management actions.

The paper is mainly focused on presenting a highly efficient software application used to implement a  more rapid microbiological method to detect pathogenic bacteria for human health, based on bacterial specific antibody-antigen interaction (Ag-Ab) , namely immunofluorescence technique , and microscopic digital image processing. Laboratory tests have proven that the proposed solution is reliable, stable and time-efficient for preventing microbiological contamination of drinking water.

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