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http://dx.doi.org/10.7845/kjm.2014.4067

Comparison of Bacterial Communities in Beach Sands along the East Coast of North Gyeongsang Province  

Khang, Yongho (School of Biotechnology, Yeungnam University)
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Korean Journal of Microbiology / v.50, no.4, 2014 , pp. 376-380 More about this Journal
Abstract
Marine beach sands with bacterial pathogens may cause increased outcomes of illness among beachgoers in summer. In this study, pyrosequencing of 16S ribosomal DNAs extracted from 12 beach sands was performed to understand how the environmental factors of wastewaters or human wastes affected the distribution of bacterial communities at the beach of North Gyeongsang province (Yeongdeok and Pohang counties) in the middle of October. It was found that Acidobacteria were dominantly distributed in the sands near the clean seawaters, Proteobacteria in the sands near the river waters, Cyanobacteria in the sands near the wastewaters, and Bacteroidetes in the sands near the beach park. Other phyla groups such as Actinobacteria, Chlorobi, Deferribacteres, Deinococcus-thermus, Firmicutes, Gemmatimonadetes, Nitrospirae, and/or Verrucomicrobia were distributed at low relative abundance (1-5%).
Keywords
beach sand; cyanobacteria; microbial community; pyrosequencing; wastewater;
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