| environmental monitoring of bacterial contamination and antibiotic resistance patterns of the fecal coliforms isolated from cauvery river, a major drinking water source in karnataka, india. | the present study focuses prudent elucidation of microbial pollution and antibiotic sensitivity profiling of the fecal coliforms isolated from river cauvery, a major drinking water source in karnataka, india. water samples were collected from ten hotspots during the year 2011-2012. the physiochemical characteristics and microbial count of water samples collected from most of the hotspots exhibited greater biological oxygen demand and bacterial count especially coliforms in comparison with contro ... | 2015 | 25896199 |