Abstract

PREVALENCE OF MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE IN E. COLI & K. PNEUMONIA STRAINS ISOLATED FROM RIVER YAMUNA IN NEW DELHI INDIA

Dr. Puja Baba*, Dr. Yashvant Rao, Dr. Ashok Kumar and Dr. Anju Dhir

Abstract

The objective of this study is to reveal the present condition of pollution level of the water of Yamuna River in Delhi due to direct injection of untreated domestic drains and industrial effluents. Very expensive water treatment technologies are not capable for the treatment of polluted Yamuna river water. Generally untreated wastewater contains high level of organic and inorganic materials, numerous pathogenic microorganisms, nutrients and many other toxic compounds. Delhi has been suffering the problems increasing amount of sewage water and industrial effluents into Yamuna river for the last few decades due to horizontal and vertical expansion of the city. Yamuna river is main source of water to well qualified, high populated Delhi peoples and Agra canal originated from Okhla barrage. The water quality was good in the sites where the river enters into the Delhi stretch before the Wazirabad barrage while the river becomes highly polluted after the discharge of various drains into it. In the present study the impact of urban runoff on the water quality of Yamuna River at Delhi has been investigated which supplies into Agra canal for irrigation purposes. Water samples were collected from the different ecologically important seven different locations and analyzed for various parameters (Isolation of E. coli & K. pneumoniae, Biochemical test, Molecular identification, Antimicrobial susceptibility test, Phenotypic detection of ESBL) & Molecular identification of ESBL & PMQR in (Delhi).

Keywords: ESBL, PMQR, E. coli, K. pneumonia and Yamuna River.