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. 2022 Oct 6;2022:2850165. doi: 10.1155/2022/2850165

Table 3.

Occurrence and distribution of bacteria isolated from the drinking water sources.

Bacteria Boreholes Dams Hand-dug wells Streams Total
No. (%)
Acinetobacter spp. 0 2 1 3 6 5.5
Bacillus spp. 0 0 1 0 1 0.9
Citrobacter freundii 0 1 0 1 2 1.8
Enterobacter spp. 1 3 2 5 11 10.0
Enterococcus spp. 0 1 0 0 1 0.9
Escherichia coli 3 7 4 9 23 20.9
Klebsiella spp. 1 9 2 12 24 21.8
Proteus vulgaris 0 1 0 1 2 1.8
Providencia spp. 0 1 0 1 2 1.8
Pseudomonas aeruginosa 0 2 1 2 5 4.5
Salmonella spp. 0 0 0 1 1 0.9
Staphylococcus aureus 3 4 5 4 16 14.5
Staphylococcus epidermidis 0 2 3 1 6 5.5
Streptococcus agalactiae 0 2 0 1 3 2.7
Vibrio spp. 1 2 3 1 7 6.4
Total 9 (8.2) 37 (33.6) 22 (20.0) 42 (38.2) 110 100.0

Number in parentheses represents the percent of the total isolates obtained.