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Debido a que la bacteria Escherichia coli se multiplica rápidamente, los investigadores colocan las muestras en hielo para retrasar su replicación. (Suministrada)
El Caño Martín Peña, in San Juan, still maintains levels of coliforms above the standards of the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and a recent investigation by the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón identified three different types of these bacteria in said body of water ..
The coliforms Escherichia coli, Enterobacter ssp, and Salmonella were identified in the water samples taken from the pipe, a 3.27-mile-long channel that connects the San Juan Bay with the San José Lagoon.
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