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 Caduto, Michael J.  Pond and Brook, A Guide to Nature in Freshwater Environments. 1990.
  University Press of New England. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
Chapelle, Francis H. 1993. Ground-Water Microbiology and Geochemistry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Collins, C.H., Patricia M. Lyne and J.M. Grange.1995. Microbiological Methods, 7th Edition
 Butterworth-Heinemann London, England.
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