Microbiological Study of The Torsa River – A Maiden Research

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This book presents a maiden study on antibiogram surveillance of copiotrophic bacteria from the Torsa River of Northern West Bengal, India. The data generated following yearlong intensive bacteriological investigation on culturable copiotrophic bacterial population of the Torsa river has been presented. The striking relationship between plasmid carriage and antibiotic resistance, presence of class 1 integrons as a mobile genetic element among the drug-resistant bacterial pool recovered, gene cassettes conferring resistance to various antibiotics, carriage of class 1 integrons on conjugative plasmids of the Gram-negative multiple-antibiotic-resistant copiotrophic bacterial isolates from River Torsa have also presented. The research work presented in this book is the first-ever microbiological study on Torsa River and therefore whatever data generated during this work period will surely be considered as a primary database.