Bacterial Indicators of Pollution at Szentendre Island Sediments – Comparative Study

El-Ghoddi, A. Nasser; Mariáligeti, K. and Némedi, L.*

Department of Microbiology, ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary
* Metropolitan Institute of State Public Health Officer Service, Dept. of Microbiology, Budapest, Hungary
 
Corresponding author: El-Ghoddi, A.., Nasser
Present address: ELTE University, Microbiology Department Budapest, Hungary
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CEJOEM 1998; 4(3):270-279


Keywords:
Bacterial pollution, indicator, sediments, Szentendre island

Abstract:
The present work was carried out to investigate and compare the dominant sediments and bacterial pollution indicators which are growing on selective and differential widely used media. Three sediment samples were collected from off Szentendre island (at 1684.5 river km) by the core sampler instrument . The current study showed that (54) strains from all samples of different depths (0 cm; –10 cm and –20 cm) were isolated, respectively. (21 strains of gram positive ), the highly dominant groups are spore formers of the genus Bacillus especially at the –10 and –20 cm layers, on the hand the dominant groups of gram negative (33 strains) are Pseudomonas and Xanthomonas spp. Further details are to be discussed later.


Received: 31 December 1997
Accepted: 19 February 1998

Posted: 19 November 1998

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