Biofilm bacterial communities and abundance in a full-scale drinking water distribution system in Shanghai

Journal of Water and Health

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 593-600

  Bai, Xiaohui ^a   Wu, Fan ^a   Zhou, Binhui ^a   Zhi, Xinghua ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biofilm; Community diversity; Heterotrophic plate count; PCR DGGE; Water distribution system

Indexed keywords

DISINFECTANT AGENT; DRINKING WATER; ORGANIC CARBON; RIBOSOME RNA; BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ABUNDANCE; BIOFILM; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; DOMINANCE; DRINKING WATER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER SUPPLY;

ACINETOBACTER; ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIOFILM; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ENTEROBACTER; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; RALSTONIA; RNA SEQUENCE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; WATER SUPPLY; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

CHINA; SHANGHAI;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOFILMS; CHINA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 77956241620     PISSN: 14778920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wh.2010.048     Document Type: Article

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