Composition and variability of biofouling organisms in seawater reverse osmosis desalination plants

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 4390-4398

  Zhang, Minglu ^a,b,c   Jiang, Sunny ^a   Tanuwidjaja, Dian ^d,e   Voutchkov, Nikolay ^f   Hoek, Eric M V ^d   Cai, Baoli ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Long Beach Water Department   (United States)

^f Water Globe Consulting LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; BACTERIAL ISOLATES; CARTRIDGE FILTERS; CLONE LIBRARY; DESALINATION PILOTS; DESALINATION PLANT; FILAMENTOUS BACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; MEMBRANE BIOFOULING; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; SEAWATER REVERSE OSMOSIS; SHEWANELLA; SPATIAL TRENDS; TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISMS; TREATMENT PROCESS;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOFOULING; CLONING; DESALINATION; FILTERS (FOR FLUIDS); GENES; MEMBRANE FOULING; MEMBRANES; OSMOSIS; PILOT PLANTS; PROJECTILES; RNA; SEAWATER; WATER FILTRATION;

REVERSE OSMOSIS;

BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; BIOFOULING; CLONE; DESALINATION; FILTRATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEMBRANE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OSMOSIS; POLYMORPHISM; SEAWATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOFOULING; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROPORE FILTER; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR TYPING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ULTRAFILTRATION; WATER MANAGEMENT;

BACTERIA; BIOFOULING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MICROPORE FILTERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR TYPING; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; ULTRAFILTRATION; WATER PURIFICATION;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ALTEROMONAS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CELLULOPHAGA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; LEUCOTHRIX MUCOR; SHEWANELLA; VIBRIO;

EID: 79960108801     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00122-11     Document Type: Article

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