Abstract
Ornamental aquarium plants were demonstrated to carry as many as 108 viable mesophilic bacteria per g. Gram-negative organisms predominated among the 19 genera of bacteria identified. Pseudomonas aeruginosa was readily isolated from 53% of the samples tested.
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