DETECTION OF ZOONOTIC PATHOGENS IN UNTREATED GROUND WATER IN RURAL EGYPTIAN COMMUNITIES | ||
| Journal of the Egyptian Veterinary Medical Association | ||
| Volume 71, Issue 1, June 2011, Pages 15-21 PDF (295.08 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Research Articles | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jevma.2011.290329 | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The simplified individual water supplies that are created by rural agriculture population usually maximize the customers' exposure to impurity pathogens via diffused human and animal excreta or wastages. This study evaluated the frequency of zoonotic pathogens in infiltrated untreated ground water. A total of two hundred and seventy ground water samples were collected from various individual home water supplies at different rural Egyptian localities and analyzed for the detection of bacterial, fungal and parasitic zoonotic pathogens. The results recognized Campylobacter jejuni, Campylobacter coli, Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhi, Shigella spp. Yersinia enterocolitica and Pseudomonas aeruginosa at percentage of 10.37, 5.93, 27.41, 4.81, 8.15, 4.44 and 9.26, respectively. The fungal isolates were Candida albicans and Cryptococcus neoformans at a percentage of 6.66 and 1.48, respectively. Also, Entamoeba histolytica and Giardia intestinalis were detected in 5/270 (1.85%) and 20/270 (7.41%) of the examined untreated ground water, respectively. The results confirm human bio-hazards through rural individual water supplies, and reflect the need of public health education toward the accurate use of drinking ground water only after perfect treatment. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Untreated ground water; zoonotic pathogens; human bio-hazards; rural Egyptian community | ||
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