Correlation Between Physicochemical and Microbiological Characteristics of River Nile Water in Sohag Governorate, Egypt

ISSN: 0973-7510

E-ISSN: 2581-690X

Khalid A.A. AbdelRahim^1,2 , A.M. Hassanein², M. Sabry Younis³ and A. Abd El-Azeiz Heikal²

¹Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2455, Riyadh 11451, KSA.

²Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Sohag University, Sohag – 82524, Egypt.

³Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Agriculture, Sohag University, Sohag – 82524, Egypt.

J Pure Appl Microbiol. 2013;7(Spl. Edn.: November):63-77

Received: 15/08/2013 | Accepted: 21/10/2013 | Published: 30/11/2013

Abstract

Water quality assessment of River Nile has been studied in the Upper Egypt region between April 2011 and March 2012 to detect the correlation between physicochemical parameters and microbiological characteristics. Thirty six water samples were collected during hot and cold seasons along the area extending from Tima to Dar-Elsalam cities, Sohag governorate, Egypt. Results indicated that the physicochemical parameters values increase significantly in the hot season than cold season. In addition, the bacteriological assessment for water samples indicated that most of studied locations were contaminated with fecal coliform and pathogenic bacteria which were identified as Escherichia coli, Salmonella spp., Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Shigella spp. A difinit correlation between some physicochemical characteristics and some bacteria were also detected and explained

Keywords

Physicochemical parameters, Microbial diversity, Correlations coefficient, River Nile water.

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