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| Provedor de dados: |
BJM
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| País: |
Brazil
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| Título: |
Microbial contamination of sand from major beaches in Fortaleza, Ceará State, Brazil
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| 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
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| Data: |
2001-06-01
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| Ano: |
2001
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| Palavras-chave: |
Sand contamination
Yeasts
Faecal coliforms
Vibrio parahaemolyticus
Salmonella
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| 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%).
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| Tipo: |
Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822001000200001
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| Editor: |
Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia
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| Relação: |
10.1590/S1517-83822001000200001
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| Formato: |
text/html
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| Fonte: |
Brazilian Journal of Microbiology v.32 n.2 2001
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| Direitos: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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