Detection of Three uncommon Bacteria in Tigris River and Purification Stations

Abstract

During the evaluation of water quality before and after treatment in one of the three water purification stations in Baghdad city.
Three uncommon bacterial species were detected and isolated from the water of Tigris River and the drinking water after treatment in purification station using conventional bacteriological methods and API20E technique for the identification of bacteria.
The isolated bacterial species were Pantoea spp. Rahnella aquatilis and Sphingomonas paucimobilis which were belonging to the families Enterobacteriaceae and Sphingomonadaceae. It is of noteworthy that, these species has not been previously isolated from the water of Tigris River or from any other Iraqi environment or clinical samples.
Although, these bacteria were habituated natural environment (water, plants and soil), they are opportunistic pathogen and they sometime pose a real public health concern, they could infect different parts of human body and some of them were recovered from different hospital environments and equipments.