Pyrosequencing reveals bacterial communities in unchlorinated drinking water distribution system: An integral study of bulk water, suspended solids, loose deposits, and pipe wall biofilm

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 5467-5476

  Liu, G ^a   Bakker, G L ^b   Li, S ^a,c   Vreeburg, J H G ^a,d   Verberk, J Q J C ^a   Medema, G J ^a,d   Liu, W T ^e   Van Dijk, J C ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Vitens Water Company   (Netherlands)

^c KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d KWR WATERCYCLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^e University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINETRIPHOSPHATE; BIOFILMS; DEPOSITS; WATER; WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS;

ASSOCIATED BACTERIA; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; CRITICAL PHASIS; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; MICROENVIRONMENTS; PYROSEQUENCING; SUSPENDED SOLIDS; TOTAL BACTERIA;

BACTERIA;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CHLORINE; DISINFECTANT AGENT; DRINKING WATER;

AGING; BACTERIOLOGY; BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISINFECTION; DRINKING WATER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PIPE; SUSPENDED LOAD; WATER SUPPLY;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ACIDOBACTERIUM; ACIDOVORAX; ACTINOBACTERIA; AGING; ALKANINDIGES; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM; BACTEROIDETES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIOFILM; CALDILINEA; CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXUS; CONEXIBACTER; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DRINKING WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM; ECOLOGY; FIRMICUTES; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GEOBACTER; HALORUBRUM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROENVIRONMENT; NITROSPIRA; NOVOSPHINGOBIUM; PELOBACTER; PHYLOGENY; POLAROMONAS; PROTEOBACTERIA; PYROSEQUENCING; RHODOPLANES; SOLIRUBROBACTER; SPHINGOBIUM; SPHINGOMONAS; SPHINGOPYXIS; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER SUPPLY;

BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; DRINKING WATER; HALOGENATION; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEWAGE; TEMPERATURE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84901008909     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es5009467     Document Type: Article

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