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Volume 7, Issue 6 (Suppl)

J Bacteriol Parasito

ISSN: 2155-9597 JBP, an open access journal

Microbiology 2016

November 28-29, 2016

November 28-29, 2016 Valencia, Spain

World Congress on

Microbiology

Sthefany Woolrich-Zavaleta et al., J Bacteriol Parasitol 2016, 7:6 (Suppl)

Effect of toxicity of monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, BTX in insolated strains of Laguna Mecoacan,

Paraiso, Tabasco, Mexico

Sthefany Woolrich-Zavaleta

and

Rocio Perez-y-Terron

Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Mexico

he monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are unsaturated organic compounds formed by one or more planes of covalently bonded

carbon, which possess the properties of benzene ring and comprise 30% of fuels like gasoline and diesel rings. In addition,

compounds are considered high risk to be carcinogenic in high concentrations and prolonged exposure times. Mecoacan lagoon

is an aquifer site of great importance for economic and social development of the municipality of Paraiso, Tabasco in Mexico. This

lagoon has been affected since the 70's by the oil industry because of its proximity to the Maritime Terminal "Dos Bocas" which is

dedicated to the exploration and production of crude hydrocarbon. The loss of the ecological balance of the lagoon Mecoacan is

due to increased industrial activity and the existence of emission sources by incomplete combustion of gasoline and diesel, releasing

various concentrations of monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons to the environment. For this reason, we want to find bacteria that

tolerate high concentrations of compounds BTX, exceeding harmful concentrations recorded, in order to be usable in the future as

bioremediation strategy, so that an analysis of bacterial tolerance was performed by test agar diffusion. Our results show tolerant

strains 22 monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; their phenotypic identification shows seven different species belonging to the genera

Burkholderia, Pseudomonas, Sphingomonas, Rhizobium

and

Vibrio

. These species are of great biotechnological and medical interest

because they relate to the presence of xenobiotic compounds, organic matter and are opportunistic pathogens that cause respiratory

disease.

Biography

Sthefany Woolrich-Zavaleta is a Biologist studied at the Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico.