Product Number: 2615800
Contains 210 high-quality full-color micrographs to help you identify organisms found in sewage and sludge. These photos provide the maximum level of detail and will help you better understand the form and dimension of the organisms. Subjects depicted in the micrographs inlcude bacteria, eggs, amoeba, parasitic protozoa, tardigrada (water bears), rotifers, ciliates, parasitic helminths, pollen grain, free-living nematodes, algae, flagellates, and more. The chapter on enumeration provides literature and techniques for fixing and staining, techniques often required for identification to the speicies level. Also contains a valuable glossary and index to make the book even easier to use.