Commentary
Microorganisms associated with laboratory sediments
Author(s): Ambali Stephen Olumide*
The fecal indicator bacteria (microbes), Escherichia. coli and Enterococci, are commonly used by Hudson river monitoring programs to quantify the level of sewage infection in estuarine water and to provide information about the health risk to recreators from sewage associated bacteria. It is generally assumed that these microbes do not persist in the water for extended periods of time and that their presence represents a recent release of sewage into the environment. However, much less is known about the abundance and environmental persistence of microbes in sediments, as opposed to the water column, of the Hudson River Estuary. In this study, microbes were quantified, using cultivation-based techniques, in water and sediment samples collected from six locations in the estuary, and the persistence of microbes in sediment was investigated in laboratory incubation experiments. microbes .. Read More»
DOI:
10.37532/puljmbr.2022.5(4).45-46
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