A Study on the Microbiological Status of Mineral Drinking Water

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• Name of Publisher: The open Microbiology Journal
• Published: 28 April 2017
• Cited by: 36
• Field of Research: Public Health

Abstract:

Water-borne diseases constitute a major health burden in Bangladesh. The objective of this study was to assess the overall quality of mineral water samples that obtained from different shops of Dhaka city.

Introduction:

The consumption of mineral water has been substantially increasing all over the world in since decade [1]. The increase also has happened in the countries where tap water is used as drinking water. According to the World Health Report (2002) [2], every year more than 3.4 million individuals die as a result of water related maladies demonstrating these as the leading cause of disease and death around the world. In the disease-prone, humid, tropical region of Bangladesh, episodes of diarrheal diseases, frequently on a pandemic scale, are not uncommon and the conceivable part of water-borne pathogens in these outbreaks has been underlined. Among waterborne infections of bacterial origin typhoid fever, bacillary dysentery and diarrhea are normal in Bangladesh. The pathogenic most frequently transmitted though water, are those which cause infection of the intestinal tract, namely typhoid, paratyphoid diarrhea, dysentery and cholera [3]. Water borne diseases constitute a major health burden in Bangladesh. According to Bangladesh health and injury report on children under 5 in 2005, children die every year from diarrhea [4]. Health effects connected with water supplies in developing nations are assessed to be based on four bacterial markers of tropical drinking-water quality (fecal coliforms, Escherichia coli, Enterococci and fecal Streptococci) and their relationship to the prevalence of diarrheal disease in Cebu, Philippines [5]. The present study was conducted to identify fecal coliforms and pathogenic bacteria e.g. Escherichia coli, Enterobacter, Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas and Vibrio species (V. cholerae, V. parahaemolyticus, V. mimicus and V. alginolyticus) from mineral water in Dhaka city. The study endeavored to answer four objectives:

• Bacterial load analysis of mineral water samples collected from different areas of Dhaka city.
• Physiochemical quality analysis of collected samples.
• Cultural and biochemical examinations of isolates.
• Antibiotic test result of isolated organisms.

Funding

No external funding received. All research carried out as a partial fulfillment of Bachelor dissertation and funded by Department of MNS, BRAC University and own expense of authors.