Detecting human bacterial pathogens in wastewater treatment plants by a high-throughput shotgun sequencing technique

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 5433-5441

  Cai, Lin ^a   Zhang, Tong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BACTERIAL PATHOGENS; ENVIRONMENTAL DETECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS; GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH; PATHOGENIC BACTERIUM; VIRULENCE FACTORS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

BACTERIA; DATABASE SYSTEMS; GENE ENCODING; RISK PERCEPTION; RNA; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

PATHOGENS;

DNA; RNA 16S; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ABUNDANCE; DATABASE; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; ESTIMATION METHOD; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PATHOGEN; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SURVEYING; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM TETANI; DATA BASE; DNA SEQUENCE; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SHOTGUN SEQUENCING TECHNIQUE; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; METAGENOME; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; RNA FINGERPRINTING; SHIGELLA BOYDII; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

BACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; WASTE WATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

CHINA; HONG KONG;

EID: 84878222613     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es400275r     Document Type: Article

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