High Levels Of E.Coli In Scantic River Research Paper

High Levels of E.Coli in Scantic River
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Introduction
Since Escherichia coli were first identified various strains have been singled out causing human and animal diseases. Humans are at risk of developing diseases and severe infection when in contact with E.coli, and determine the different strains and their concentration is necessary to determine whether animals and human beings are vulnerable to the bacteria. The chicken is a reservoir of the E.coli, and close contact with the birds may increase the risk of infections, highlighting the need to analyze the source of E.coli (Laube et al., 2014). There have been various outbreaks of E.coli infections associated with animals, while increasingly there is concern that river waters that largely remain untreated harbor various strains of the bacterium (Carlos et al., 2010). Epidemiological investigations and studies on the link between animals and the bacteria have mostly focused on c...