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Seafoam bacteria from the Havelock island of the Andamans, India

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Title Seafoam bacteria from the Havelock island of the Andamans, India
 
Creator Gobalakrishnan, Rajagopal
Sivakumar, Kannan
Sethubathi, Gunasekaran Vijayabaskara
Kannan, Lakshmanan
 
Subject Havelock Island
Pathogenic bacteria
Seafoam
Total heterotrophic bacteria
 
Description 1562-1565
Present investigation was carried out to study the total heterotrophic and pathogenic
bacteria from the seafoam samples of the Havelock coast, Andamans. In this study, 38 strains
were isolated and 9 genera viz. Escherichia, Enterococcus, Aeromonas,
Vibrio, Salmonella, Klebsella, Streptococcus, Shigella and Pseudomonas were identified. Among
 the
 38 isolates,
11 isolates were selected
based on the colony morphology and identified upto species level. Population density of THB was higher in Zobell Marine agar (86 × 105 CFU ml-1) and among the THB, E. coli recorded higher density (57 × 105 CFU mL-1). This study reveals
the presence of THB and pathogenic bacteria in the seafoam; the latter being a signal to the coastal pollution
of the island. Moreover,
this study is the first of its kind in the Andaman waters of India and it would pave way for future workers
to elucidate the role of THB and pathogenic
bacteria in the seafoam formation.
 
Date 2016-06-27T12:16:20Z
2016-06-27T12:16:20Z
2014-08
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/34514
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.43(8) [August 2014]