
	Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences
	Year: 2014 \| Volume: 17 \| Issue: 4 \| Page No.: 540-544 DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2014.540.544

Multidrug Resistant Pathogenic Escherichia coli Status in Water Sources and Yamuna River in and Around Mathura, India

Anita , Amit Kumar, Amit Kumar Verma, Manoj Kumar Gupta and Anu Rahal

Abstract: The present study was taken to understand the status of water resources in the holy city of Mathura, India. As it is a tourist place and pilgrims come from all around the world, there are more chances of spread of pathogens through them. The pathogens which are particularly excreted through urine and feces are most commonly excreted out. E. coli is one of them which causes many severe diseases particularly in neonatal calves or neonates of human. As the city has its limitation of accommodation and river Yamuna is also shrinking, the pressure of millions of pilgrims has enormous, drastic and stipulated effect on water resources particularly river Yamuna. The samples collected showed the presence of pathogenic E. coli. Out of total 100 samples 40 were found positive for E. coli. The 60 samples of different water resources showed the presence of E. coli in 26 samples while 14 were found positive out of 40 samples of Yamuna water. The total coliforms count ranged between 1.08 log₁₀ CFU m L^-1 to 6.34 log₁₀ CFU m L^-1in drinking water sources and waste water, respectively. The high percentage of positive samples and coliforms count may be because of the method and place of sample collection. When these isolates were analyzed for antibiotic sensitivity pattern against some commonly used antibiotics. They showed a variable effectiveness against them. The number of resistant isolate is significant enough to make an alert at the earliest to protect the water resources and also to secure better and brighter future of human population.

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How to cite this article:

Anita , Amit Kumar, Amit Kumar Verma, Manoj Kumar Gupta and Anu Rahal, 2014. Multidrug Resistant Pathogenic Escherichia coli Status in Water Sources and Yamuna River in and Around Mathura, India. Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences, 17: 540-544.

DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2014.540.544

URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=pjbs.2014.540.544

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