COMPARISON OF MICROBIOLOGICAL NONCOMPLIANCEFREQUENCIES OF CHEMICALDISINFECTANTS USED IN SWIMMING POOLS IN TURKEY
Yazarlar (3)
D. Camur
T.C. Sağlık Bakanlığı,, Türkiye
T.C. Sağlık Bakanlığı,, Türkiye
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Hüseyin İLTER T.C. Sağlık Bakanlığı,, Türkiye
M. K. Basarali
T.C. Sağlık Bakanlığı,, Türkiye
T.C. Sağlık Bakanlığı,, Türkiye
| Makale Türü | Özgün Makale (SSCI, AHCI, SCI, SCI-Exp dergilerinde yayınlanan tam makale) | ||
| Dergi Adı | Journal of Environmental Protection and Ecology | ||
| Dergi ISSN | 1311-5065 Wos Dergi Scopus Dergi | ||
| Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler | SCI-Expanded | ||
| Makale Dili | İngilizce | Basım Tarihi | 01-2017 |
| Cilt / Sayı / Sayfa | 18 / 3 / 1231–1237 | DOI | – |
| Makale Linki | http://www.jepe-journal.info/home | ||
| Özet |
| Swimming pools are used in Turkey for physical activity and entertainment purposes as in many countries. Such common use brings recreational water-associated illness risk. Disinfection is an important application to prevent RWIs resulting from microbiological agents. This study aimed to calculate the non-compliance frequencies emerging in the use of different chemical disinfectants in swimming pools in Turkey and compare the effectiveness of different disinfection methods in the prevention of microbiological non-compliances. We evaluated the analysis results of a total of 79 087 pool water samples taken from inspection semi-public and public swimming pools in Turkey, where chemical disinfection was used, for routine monitoring purposes in the first eight months of 2015 and 2016. The minimum non-compliance for the total numbers of colony, total coliform, E. coli and P. aeruginosa parameters was determined in pools where chlorine and chlorine compounds were used (0.9-1.0% and 0.4-1.1%, respectively) whereas the highest non-compliance was found in pools using hydrogen peroxide + biguanide (5.5-5.3% and 3.1-9.1%, respectively). The applied statistical tests revealed a statistically significant difference between disinfection methods in terms of non-compliance frequency of all microbiological parameters (p < 0.0000001). This study found that chlorine in semi-public and public pools to be more effective against microbiological pollution than other chemical disinfection methods. This result is extremely important as it emphasises that other methods may be a suitable option in small, domestic pools with low user density whereas chlorine should be the primary preference especially in semi-public and public pools with high user density. |
| Anahtar Kelimeler |
| Biguanide | Chlorine | Disinfection | Hydrogen peroxide | Ozone | Swimming pool |
