PREVALENCE OF ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANT BACTERIA IN URBAN VERSUS RURAL WATER SOURCES

Abstract

The purpose of the experiment was to understand the antibiotic resistance patterns between rural and urban water sources. The present study thus explored and sought to differentiate the bacterial isolates from urban and rural water bodies with antibiotic resistance patterns evaluating the causes of the dissimilarities. The fact is that the study managed to interpret the occurrence of antibiotic resistance as being one of the significant sources for the infection of the waters in the cities, and the country, too. The study confirms that the difference in the number of resistant bacteria between city water sources and country water sources is significant. Research has shown that antibiotic resistance is the most likely urban contributors to industrial pollution and sewage discharge, as well as the copious human density of the city. Urban places have been confirmed to harbor higher amounts of bacteria that are resistant to the antibiotic compounds than other places due to the antibiotic and other pollutant residues that are commonly found in these areas. Consistent with the previous research that urban wastewater, which is mostly loaded with a wide variety of antibiotic residues or other contaminants, showed the highest diversity of resistant bacteria. The fact that there are different species of soft corals growing in different antifungal treatments further supports the hypothesis of a host-microbe interaction. Rehearsing to get to the main point is the emphasis of this study. Water in urban areas, as a matter of fact, exhibits a much higher concentration of antibiotic-resistant bacterial levels thus the differences are becoming clearer every day. Therefore, the studies have further typified the communities of the uncultivated new species and those of the domestic species.

Keywords: Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria, urban water sources, rural water sources, Water culture, bacterial isolates.