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Provedor de dados: | 58
País: | Brazil
Título: | Microbial contamination of sand from major beaches in Fortaleza, Ceará State, Brazil
Autores: | Vieira,Regine Helena Silva dos Fernandes; Rodrigues,Dália dos Prazeres; Menezes,Everardo A.; Evangelista,Norma Suely de Santana; Reis,Eliane M.F. dos; Barreto,Leopoldo Melo; Gonçalves,Flávia Araújo.
Data: | 2001-06-01
Ano: | 2001
Palavras-chave: | Sand contamination; Yeasts; Faecal coliforms; Vibrio parahaemolyticus; Salmonella.
Resumo: | The presence of faecal contamination and pathogenic microorganisms in samples of dry and wet sand collected from three major beaches in Fortaleza, Ceará State, Brazil: (Praia do Mucuripe, Praia do Futuro and Praia do Caça e Pesca), during the period of May 1999 to January 2000 was evaluated. Praia do Caça e Pesca had the highest incidence of E. coli in dry sand (56%) followed by Praia do Mucuripe (28%) and Praia do Futuro (16%). In wet sand, results were 48%, 28% and 24% for Praia do Caça e Pesca, Praia do Futuro and Praia do Mucuripe, respectively. Only two samples from Praia do Futuro, one from dry sand and another one from wet sand, were positive for Salmonella. V. parahaemolyticus was isolated from four samples from Praia do Caça e Pesca (two from dry-sand samples and two from wet-sand), one from Praia do Futuro (wet sand), and three and four from Praia do Mucuripe (wet and dry sand, respectively). Yeasts belonged to the Candida genus. Dry-sand samples presented higher yeast contaminations level than wet-sand ones. Praia do Futuro had the highest level of yeast contamination (41%), followed by Praia do Caça e Pesca (33%) and Praia do Mucuripe (26%).
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822001000200001
Editor: | Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia
Relação: | 10.1590/S1517-83822001000200001
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Brazilian Journal of Microbiology  v.32 n.2 2001
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess