The impact of industrial-scale cartridge filtration on the native microbial communities from groundwater

Water Research

Volumn 42, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 4319-4326

  Wang, Yingying ^a,b   Hammes, Frederik ^a   Egli, Thomas ^a,b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bottled water; Filtration; Flow cytometry; Groundwater; Population distribution; Total cell concentrations

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; FILTRATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS; PLASTIC BOTTLES; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PORE SIZE; PROJECTILES;

ABSOLUTE BARRIERS; BOTTLED WATER; CELL CONCENTRATIONS; GROUNDWATER AQUIFER; MICROBIAL ABUNDANCES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL CONCENTRATIONS; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES (PET);

WATER FILTRATION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; GLASS; GROUND WATER; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE;

AQUIFER; DRINKING WATER; FILTRATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GROUNDWATER; GROWTH RATE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHTHALATE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; WATER TREATMENT;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MICROFILTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 52949096501     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2008.07.027     Document Type: Article

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