Microbial community dynamics of an urban drinking water distribution system subjected to phases of chloramination and chlorination treatments

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 7856-7865

  Hwang, Chiachi ^a   Ling, Fangqiong ^a   Andersen, Gary L ^b   LeChevallier, Mark W ^c   Liu, Wen Tso ^a  

^a United States of America   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c American Water Voorhees   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; CANONICAL CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; CHLORAMINATION; CHLORINATED WATERS; FREE CHLORINE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; MICROBIAL COMPOSITION; MICROBIAL POPULATIONS; MICROBIAL REGROWTH; MULTIDIMENSION; PYROSEQUENCING; SAMPLING LOCATION; SAMPLING TIME; SOURCE WATERS; TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISMS; TIME POINTS; TREATMENT PROCESS; WATER SAMPLES; WATER UTILITY;

CHLORINATION; CHLORINE; GROUNDWATER; MICROORGANISMS; RNA; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL; WATER SUPPLY;

WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS;

BACTERIAL DNA; CHLORAMINE DERIVATIVE; CHLORINE; DISINFECTANT AGENT; DRINKING WATER; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S; TOSYLCHLORAMIDE SODIUM;

BACTERIUM; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CHLORINATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DRINKING WATER; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POLYMORPHISM; REGROWTH; SAMPLING; URBAN DRAINAGE; URBAN POPULATION; WATER SUPPLY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOTA; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DISINFECTION; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; HALOGENATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA; BIOTA; CHLORAMINES; CHLORINE; DISINFECTANTS; DISINFECTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DRINKING WATER; HALOGENATION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

CLOSTRIDIACEAE; CYANOBACTERIA; FLAVOBACTERIACEAE; METHYLOBACTERIACEAE; METHYLOCOCCACEAE; METHYLOPHILACEAE; PSEUDOMONADACEAE; SPHINGOMONADACEAE; XANTHOMONADACEAE;

EID: 84868622992     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01892-12     Document Type: Article

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