Somatic and F-specific bacteriophages in waters of the small, municipal Rusałka Lake in Szczecin

Abstract

Investigations of bacteriophages showed that in the environment are mostly in water, but in small municipal lakes sporadically been studied. Previous studies of bacteriophages in the aqueous environment related to the determination of the quantity and diversity and use them as indicators of water pollution. In the last study probably of the most important are the F-specific and somatic bacteriophages specific to E. coli. In our study examined them in a small municipal lake in Szczecin (Poland) in context of occurrence of F-specific and somatic bacteriophages specific to E. coli with used of SAL method. We proved that count of bacteriophages in this water tank is lower in context of different waters, but the relation between the amounts of this viruses and environments condition (air and water temperature) were similar to results observed in waters of seas, rivers and lakes.