ArticleEnvironmental monitoring and assessment2016
Bacteriological quality of some swimming pools in Alexandria with special reference to Staphylococcus aureus.
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- Environmental health aspects and microbial infections of the recreational water : Microbial Infections and Swimming pools.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Prevalence of MRSA as an Infectious Agent in Sanitary Swimming Pools and Jacuzzis.Journal of environmental health science & engineering · 2022Article
- Impact of swimming pool water treatment system factors on the content of selected disinfection by-products.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2020Article
- An innovative swimming pool water quality index (SPWQI) to monitor and evaluate the pools: design and compilation of computational model.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2019Article
- Potential human pathogenic bacteria in five hot springs in Eritrea revealed by next generation sequencing.PloS one · 2018Article
- Assessing the impact of the COVID‑19 pandemic health protocols on the hygiene status of swimming pools of hotel units.Medicine internationalArticle
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Abstract
Swimming pools have been identified as posing some public health risks to users due to either bacterial or chemical contamination. As a result, maintaining good swimming pool water quality is an important issue in preventing health risks for bathers. This study aimed to evaluate the bacteriological quality of some swimming pools in Alexandria and to investigate the prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) in water samples. A total of 120 water samples from 10 swimming pools were collected. Bacteriological analysis included heterotrophic plate count (HPC) using pour plate method; enumeration of total coliforms (TC), Escherichia coli (E. coli) and S. aureus by membrane filtration technique. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing was performed on isolated S. aureus. Residual chlorine and pH were measured at swimming pools side. HPC was the least complying microbial parameter, followed by TC. S. aureus was recovered from 18 samples; 9 isolates were methicillin resistant S.aureus (MRSA), compared to E. coli that was detected in 7 samples. HPC and TC showed statistically significant correlations with all investigated parameters. In conclusion, the examined pools showed poor quality regarding all examined parameters collectively according to the Egyptian guidelines, which necessitates implementation of proper measures to ensure safer environment in swimming pools.
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