Coastal sewage discharge and its impact on fish with reference to antibiotic resistant enteric bacteria and enteric pathogens as bio-indicators of pollution

Chemosphere

Volumn 77, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1534-1539

  Al Bahry, S N ^a   Mahmoud, I Y ^a   Al Belushi, K I A ^a   Elshafie, A E ^a   Al Harthy, A ^a   Bakheit, C K ^a  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Bacteria; Fish; Sewage treated effluent

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIA; EFFLUENTS; MARINE POLLUTION; SEWAGE;

ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANT BACTERIA; ENTERIC PATHOGENS; MOST PROBABLE NUMBER; PATHOGENIC SPECIES; SEWAGE DISCHARGES; SEWAGE EFFLUENTS; TOTAL BACTERIAL COUNT; TREATED EFFLUENT;

FISH;

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CARBENICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CHLORINE; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; MINOCYCLINE; NALIDIXIC ACID; NEOMYCIN; NITRATE; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BIOINDICATOR; CHLORINE; COASTAL ZONE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; EFFLUENT; FISH; NITRATE; PATHOGEN; SEWAGE; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; COLON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FISH; GILL; INTESTINE FLORA; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; OMAN; POLLUTION MONITORING; SEA; SEA POLLUTION; SEWAGE DISPOSAL; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR; WILDLIFE;

ARABIAN SEA; GULF OF OMAN; INDIAN OCEAN;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE;

EID: 71849115741     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2009.09.052     Document Type: Article

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