Microbial community changes with decaying chloramine residuals in a lab-scale system

Water Research

Volumn 47, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 4666-4679

  Bal Krishna, K C ^a   Sathasivan, Arumugam ^a,b   Ginige, Maneesha P ^c  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chloramine decay; Chloramine residuals; Heterotrophic microbes; Microbial communities; Nitrification

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BACTERIA; CLONE CELLS; DECAY (ORGANIC); METABOLITES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UREA; WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS;

AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIA; CHLORAMINATED DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; CHLORAMINE DECAYS; CHLORAMINE RESIDUALS; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; HETEROTROPHIC BACTERIAS; HETEROTROPHIC MICROBES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES;

NITRIFICATION;

TOSYLCHLORAMIDE SODIUM;

BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION; CHLORINE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; LABORATORY METHOD; METABOLITE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; NITRIFICATION;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CLONING; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; METABOLITE; METHYLOBACTERIUM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITRIFICATION; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSOMONAS OLIGOTROPHA; NITROSOMONAS UREA; NITROSPIRA; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; REACTOR; SOLIBACTERES; SPHINGOBACTERIA; SPHINGOMONAS; WATER SUPPLY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; METHYLOBACTERIUM; NITROSOMONADALES; NITROSOMONAS; NITROSPIRA; OLIGOTROPHA; PSEUDOMONAS; SOLIBACTERES; SPHINGOBACTERIA; SPHINGOMONAS;

EID: 84879013496     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2013.04.035     Document Type: Article

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