2nd International Conference and Expo on Water Microbiology & Novel Technologies August 28-30, 2017 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Rim M Harfouch has completed her Master’s degree in Microbiology, Haematology and Immunology from Tishreen University College of Pharmacy, Latakia, Syria. (Year of graduation 2013). She is currently a Practical Instructor of the Microbiology and Hematology lab in Al Andalus University College of Pharmacy, Tartous, Syria. She has published four papers in reputed journals.

In this paper, water samples from emergency departments of 11 general hospitals, located in the Syrian Coast, were collected in sterilized flasks twice during the period (May 15 to November 20, 2015). The water samples were analyzed for pH value, turbidity, electrical conductivity, total dissolved solid (TDS), percentage of salts (Sal%), ammonia, nitrate, nitrite, sulphate, phosphate, copper, iron, chloride, as well as the microbial pollution. The microbial analysis was performed by filtering 100 ml of water sample on a sterile filter (with a 0.45-mm pore size), which retains bacteria, incubating this filter on a selective medium and enumerating typical colonies on the filter. Results showed that the physico-chemical values of hospital water samples were within a permissible limit of standard procedure mentioned in Syrian S.N.S:45/2007 standards and WHO standards except for chloride in five hospitals. The microbial analysis showed that water was polluted with E. coli and other coliforms in six (of eleven) general hospitals, which may be explained by lack of chlorination of water reservoirs. The purpose of this study was to assess the safety of hospital water on patients\' health and to evaluate the effect of syrian crisis on the medical sector.

Sahar Wefky Mostafa Hassana is an Associate Professor of Microbiology at National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries in the branch of Marine Environment, Division of Microbiology. His research interests concern production, statistical optimization of bioactive metabolites produced by different marine sources such as bacteria, Actinomycetes, algae and characterization and applications of the extracted bioactive compounds. He is interested in production of marine natural products such as exopolysaccharides and investigation of their applications as antitumor, antiviral, antibacterial and antioxidant; in addition to isolation, molecular characterization of different types of bacteriophages and investigation of their potentiality as alternatives to the traditional antibiotics and; production of different enzymes from marine bacteria and Actinomycetes, bioremediation of dyes and removal of heavy metals using marine bacteria and fungi. Application of nanotechnology is also of his interest

Estimation of the total viable bacterial counts and some physic-chemical parameters in different sites, selected along the Suez Bay was carried out. The highest bacterial density is positively correlated with pollution strength and is localized at the end of the Suez Bay on the one hand of Suez Gulf. It is also function of pollution strength at different examined sites. Antagonistic interactions among the most dominating twenty-two bacterial isolates were assayed. The marine isolate AB12 isolated from sea water of NIOF station displayed the highest antagonistic activity (42.8%). Antagonistic isolates were assigned to phylogenetically four different phena which were identified as Staphylococcus, Micrococcus, Enterococcus and Enterobacter species in addition to five single clusters which were identified as Acinetobacter sp. and Pseudomonas sp. The promising strain was identified at the molecular level as Pseudoalteromonas piscicida.