Isolation And Identification Of Bacterial Strains From Musi River Hyderabad And Study Of Drug Resistance

Abstract

Incomplete metabolism in humans has resulted in release of large amount of pharmaceutical drugs into municipal water, at the same time liberation of untreated waste of pharmaceutical industries in rivers extensively opens a way for various pathogenic microorganisms to attain resistance towards the action of antibiotics. It is a fact that all round the globe water pollution is a leading cause in developing drug resistance in numerous pathogens. Keeping in view of this, an attempt has been made to analyze the water samples of Musi river (A river located in and around the Hyderabad, Telangana) as several sewage pipelines are being continuously emptied in this river from many years. Five bacterial pathogens- E.coli, Enterobacter, Pseudomonas , Shigella and Salmonella were isolated and cultured from the water samples and tested for their response towards broad spectrum antibiotics.Enterobacter, Pseudomonas, & Salmonella were found sensitive generally to antibiotics. Whereas E.coli and Shigella were found resistant to Ceftriazone, Cefuroxime, and Streptomycin.