Frontiers in Environmental Microbiology

Volume 1, Issue 3, December 2015

  • Biological Agents of Bioremediation: A Concise Review

    Karabi Biswas, Dipak Paul, Sankar Narayan Sinha

    Issue: Volume 1, Issue 3, December 2015
    Pages: 39-43
    Received: 10 September 2015
    Accepted: 17 September 2015
    Published: 18 September 2015
    DOI: 10.11648/j.fem.20150103.11
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    Abstract: Due to intensive agriculture, rapid industrialization and anthropogenic activities have caused environmental pollution, land degradation and increased pressure on the natural resources and contributing to their adulteration. Bioremediation is the use of biological organisms to destroy, or reduce the hazardous wastes on a contaminated site. Bioremed... Show More
  • Prevalence of Multiple Antibiotic-Resistant Coliform Bacteria in the Water of River Ganga

    Karabi Biswas, Dipak Paul, Sankar Narayan Sinha

    Issue: Volume 1, Issue 3, December 2015
    Pages: 44-46
    Received: 13 September 2015
    Accepted: 22 September 2015
    Published: 28 September 2015
    DOI: 10.11648/j.fem.20150103.12
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    Abstract: The current investigation was done to assess the bacterial load and detect the presence of indicator bacteria that acquire the spread of feacal contamination of water of river Ganga at Serampore, West Bengal, India. Total of 110 bacterial isolates, 25 feacal coliform, 50 Escherichia coli and Enterobacter sp were isolated from river water. The objec... Show More
  • Studies on Environmental Monitoring of Aeromicroflora in a Hospital at Kalyani, West Bengal, India

    Dipak Paul, Karabi Biswas, Chandan Sengupta, Sankar Narayan Sinha

    Issue: Volume 1, Issue 3, December 2015
    Pages: 47-50
    Received: 11 September 2015
    Accepted: 22 September 2015
    Published: 28 September 2015
    DOI: 10.11648/j.fem.20150103.13
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    Abstract: A qualitative and quantitative study of indoor air in a hospital at Kalyani, West Bengal, India was carried out. For the enumeration of bacteria and fungi, samples were collected using the settle plate method. This study focuses to assess the microbial population of indoor air of different wards of the hospital and in different sampling time. The h... Show More