Microbial quality and phylogenetic diversity of fresh rainwater and tropical freshwater reservoir.

ABSTRACT: The impact of rainwater on the microbial quality of a tropical freshwater reservoir through atmospheric wet deposition of microorganisms was studied for the first time. Reservoir water samples were collected at four different sampling points and rainwater samples were collected in the immediate vicinity of the reservoir sites for a period of four months (January to April, 2012) during the Northeast monsoon period. Microbial quality of all fresh rainwater and reservoir water samples was assessed based on the counts for the microbial indicators: Escherichia coli (E. coli), total coliforms, and Enterococci along with total heterotrophic plate counts (HPC). The taxonomic richness and phylogenetic relationship of the freshwater reservoir with those of the fresh rainwater were also assessed usin

SUBMITTER: Kaushik R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4076214 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature