surface waters such as lakes and rivers which are multipurpose fields used for drinking water supply, agricultural irrigation, fisheries and energy production are being threatened by domestic, industrial and agricultural pollution caused by rapidly growing population. due to the insufficient numbers of studies on lake bafa, the largest coastal lake of turkey, this study was conducted to investi...

A biological process, called BIOSOL, developed in our laboratory, efficiently reduces metals and reduces pathogenic indicator bacteria in sewage sludges in a single-stage system to levels meeting Ontario Ministry of the Environment (OME) requirements for land application of biosolids. Since the requirements for unrestricted use of compost are 10 to 50 times (depending on the metal involved) mor...

several methods have been developed for gold exploration in the past, among which biological base method is known to be the most efficient with least expenses. this method can also be used for latent gold prospects exploration. in the present study, the possibility of applying bacillus cereus frequency in soil as a biological marker was investigated for the exploration of latent gold prospectin...

The detection of pathogenic microorganisms in aquatic environments is extremely relevant in terms of public health. As these laboratorial methodologies are usually difficult, expensive and time-consuming, they are frequently replaced by the assessment of fecal indicator bacteria, such as Escherichia coli. This study aimed to assess the presence of E. coli in fecal samples from Neotropical otter...

BACKGROUND Bacteria used as indicators for pathogenic microorganisms in water are not considered adequate as enteric virus indicators. Surface water from a tropical high-altitude system located in Mexico City that receives rainwater, treated and non-treated wastewater used for irrigation, and groundwater used for drinking, was studied. METHODS The presence of enterovirus, rotavirus, astroviru...

A sanitary indicator has been proposed to gather informations about the presence of CFU (colony forming units) of bacteria capable of causing hemolysis of sheep blood cells, known as hemolytic bacteria, in a sewage sludge sample. A group of hemolytic, heterotrophic bacteria, which are differentiated in terms of their phenotypes and genotypes, includes many species and types. As follows from lit...

background: the repetitive use of antibiotics in different fields (veterinary and medicine) improves the emergence and occurrence of the resistance phenomenon in pathogenic bacteria. due to the problem of antimicrobial resistance, it is an urgent need to discover new drugs and alternative treatments for the control of bacterial diseases in aquaculture. objectives: the purpose of this study is t...