Odeyemi Olumide A
Ecology and Biodiversity Centre, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS - Launceston), University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia ; Research and Training Unit, Springforth Scientific Resource Centre, Ikorodu, Lagos Nigeria.
Springerplus. 2015 Oct 26;4:642. doi: 10.1186/s40064-015-1447-z. eCollection 2015.
Over the past years, there has been increase in packaged water consumption in Nigeria. Although, there are several studies on microbial safety of sachet packaged drinking water, there is no information on prevailing pathogens.
A comprehensive literature search and meta-analysis of peer reviewed primary studies reported from 2005 for microbiological safety of packaged drinking water sold in Nigeria was conducted using "sachet water", "bottled water" and "packaged water" and Nigeria as search algorithms in public scientific literature databases. It was observed in this study that Escherichia spp., (65.5 %), Salmonella spp., (44.8 %), Bacillus spp., (44.1 %) and Staphylococcus spp. (37.9 %) were more prevailing in the samples.
The high rate of contamination observed is of public health importance. There is need for use of molecular based methods to understand microbial ecology, epidemiology, virulence factors and survival of isolated water borne pathogens in packaged drinking water sold in Nigeria.
在过去几年中，尼日利亚包装水的消费量有所增加。尽管有多项关于袋装包装饮用水微生物安全性的研究，但关于主要病原体的信息却没有。
利用“袋装水”“瓶装水”“包装水”和“尼日利亚”作为搜索算法，在公共科学文献数据库中对2005年以来报道的关于尼日利亚销售的包装饮用水微生物安全性的同行评审初步研究进行了全面的文献检索和荟萃分析。本研究观察到，埃希氏菌属（65.5%）、沙门氏菌属（44.8%）、芽孢杆菌属（44.1%）和葡萄球菌属（37.9%）在样本中更为常见。
观察到的高污染率具有公共卫生重要性。有必要使用基于分子的方法来了解尼日利亚销售的包装饮用水中分离出的水源性病原体的微生物生态学、流行病学、毒力因子和生存情况。
