The quality control of wastewater treatments was monitored using selected novel and classical physicochemical and microbiological indicators, and the associations of the treatments with the effluents was analyzed. The microbiological indicators monitored were heterotrophic plate count (HPC), total coliforms (TC), fecal coliforms (FC), fecal streptococci (FS), sulfite-reducing clostridia (SRC), ...

This study evaluated the bacterial distribution and the survivability of bacteria associated with different particle size ranges in the sump water and sediments within two structural Best Management Practices (BMPs), called Vortechs, installed at two different sites in Providence, Rhode Island. Ten rain storms were sampled in year 2004. Five pathogenic indicator bacteria, E. coli, enterococci, ...

Introduction: Microbial contamination prediction through detecting the indicator bacteria in natural waters is the first health and environmental step for preventing the transmission of water-associated diseases. This study was designed to determine the correlation between Escherichia coli as the indicator bacterium, on the one hand, and Salmonella and Shigella Spp. As the pathogenic bacteria, ...

Background: Pregnant women colonized with Streptococcus agalactiae-Group B Streptococci (GBS) can transmit the bacteria to their new-borns at time of birth. Intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis (IAP) prevent this transmission. The aim study is find out carriage rate group streptococci isolated from pregnant in Duhok city, Iraq. Other Antibiotic susceptibility patterns isolates and detect risk fac...

Low-temperature heat treatment for sanitizing fruits and some vegetables is very detrimental to the appearance of the products. Fruits especially are so softened that they are extremely difficult to market. In order to correct this trouble, industries use such chemical sanitizing agents as chlorine and the quaternary ammonium compounds in the processing of many fruits. All these chemicals are i...

fecal incontinence is a challenging condition in that it exerts various psychosocial impacts on daily life. different treatment modalities have been suggested for fecal incontinence. the present study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of biofeedback therapy in combination with surgery in the management of fecal incontinence. the present randomized controlled trial was performed on 27 women with a ...

The minimal inhibitory concentrations of nine growth-promoting agents were determined by an agar-dilution method against 66 bile-tolerant streptococcal (8 Streptococcus faecalis, 23 Streptococcus faecalis subsp. liquefaciens, 15 Streptococcus faecium, and 20 carboxyphilic streptococci) strains isolated from the ceca of 52 chickens on 19 farms. Avoparcin was equally active on all groups. The nat...

In a critical review of pathogen and indicator-organism transformations and transport from land areas receiving organic wastes, microbial die-off was described assuming first-order kinetics. First-order die-off rate constants (k) were calculated from the literature data for various pathogens and indicator organisms. For indicator organisms average die-off.rates were 1.14 day-’ (0.08-9.1) for fe...