EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF ACTIVE CHLORINE INFLUENCE TO PATHOGENIC AND POTENTIALLY PATHOGENIC MICROORGANISMS

In experimental conditions, an assessment was given on the efficiency of active chlorine effect on the viability of microorganisms having a sanitary-epidemiological significance. It was shown that in conditions of intensive water source contamination of maximum load using treatment facilities with double chlorination (chlorine dose 5 mg/l) after 30 minutes of contact, only E.coli died, at the same time, conditionally pathogenic and pathogenic microorganisms, the infective dose of which was within the same limits (50 000 CFU/l), were inactivated by 99,9 %; with an increase in the applied dose of 10 and 100 times, the degree of inactivation decreased in Salmonella to 99,5 %, in Pseudomonas aeruginosa to 99,2 %, Klebsiella remained at the same level of 99,9 %. This predetermines the possibility of their appearance in drinking water, which can lead to the emergence of acute intestinal infections among the population.