The book covers the incidence of Escherichia coli in a fishing harbour and surrounding waterbodies in a coastal town, Ponnnai, Kerala, South India. It is an original research work done by the first author Dr. Zubair A A under the the guidance of Dr. S.Sureshkumar in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by University of Calicut. During the study, a total of 106 E. coli isolates were obtained from 390 samples collected from the study area.Maximum incidence of E. coli was found during the Monsoon season in all the three water bodies.The...