Bacterial pathogens associated with hand-dug wells in Ibadan city,Nigeria

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dc.contributor.authorOdeleye, F.O.
dc.contributor.authorIdowu, A.O.
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-04T15:25:55Z
dc.date.available2022-01-04T15:25:55Z
dc.date.issued2015-03-11
dc.descriptionScholarly articlesen_US
dc.description.abstractThe supply of pipe-borne water in Nigeria has over the years become grossly inadequate or totally non-existent. This has led many people to seek alternative sources of water from streams, springs, and especially hand-dug wells. This study was carried out to investigate the bacteriological quality of water from hand-dug wells in Ibadan city. This was done by investigating bacterial indicators of water quality in samples collected from 50 hand-dug wells and three boreholes from five different local government areas within Ibadan Municipal city and examined for total coliform and faecal coliform. Water samples from 96% of the wells were found to be contaminated with both total coliform and faecal coliform. The total coliform counts and fecal coliform counts ranged between 0 to 160x103/100 ml and 0 to 22x103/100 ml, respectively. The predominant bacterial isolates include Escherichia coli (38.5%), Klebsiella spp. (16.9%), Staphylococcus aureus (13.8%) and Enterobacter spp. (9.2%). While antibiotic susceptibility to nitrofurantoin (96.9%), gentamycin (93.6%), and streptomycin (93.3%) was high, it was low in ampicillin (37.8%) and to a lesser extent in Cotrimoxazole(66.7%). 24.1% of the isolates were multidrug-resistant with about seven patterns observed. Hand-dug wells in the area of study were highly contaminated with pathogenic bacteria and this exposes consumers of water drawn from these wells to the risk of contracting various waterborne diseases.en_US
dc.identifier.citationOdeleye FO, Idowu AO.Bacterial pathogens associated with hand-dug wells in Ibadan city,Nigeria. African Journal of Microbiology Research (2015)9(10):701-707en_US
dc.identifier.issn1996-0808
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.unilag.edu.ng/handle/123456789/9938
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAfrican Journal of Microbiological Researchen_US
dc.subjectBacterial pathogensen_US
dc.subjectHand dug wellen_US
dc.subjectWaterborne diseaseen_US
dc.subjectColiformsen_US
dc.subjectResearch Subject Categories::MEDICINEen_US
dc.titleBacterial pathogens associated with hand-dug wells in Ibadan city,Nigeriaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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