Distribution System Water Quality Affects Responses of Opportunistic Pathogen Gene Markers in Household Water Heaters

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 8416-8424

  Wang, Hong ^a   Masters, Sheldon ^b   Falkinham, Joseph O ^b   Edwards, Marc A ^b   Pruden, Amy ^b  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEMENTS; DISINFECTANTS; EFFLUENTS; GENES; HEATING; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; POLYVINYL CHLORIDES; WATER HEATERS; WATER QUALITY;

DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; HOUSEHOLD WATER; LEGIONELLA SPP; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; POLYVINYL CHLORIDE (PVC); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RECEIVING WATERS; SIMULATED DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS;

PATHOGENS;

DISINFECTANT AGENT; CHLORAMINE DERIVATIVE; CHLORINE; GENETIC MARKER; POLYVINYLCHLORIDE; TOSYLCHLORAMIDE SODIUM;

BACTERIUM; BIOMARKER; DISINFECTION; EFFLUENT; GENE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITRIFICATION; WATER QUALITY;

ACANTHAMOEBA; AMOEBOZOA; ARTICLE; CHLORAMINATION; CHLORINATION; DISINFECTION; DNA EXTRACTION; EFFLUENT; GENE DOSAGE; GENERAL DEVICE; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MARKER GENE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITRIFICATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SIMULATED HOUSEHOLD WATER HEATER; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; VERMAMOEBA VERMIFORMIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; AMOEBA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); CHEMISTRY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; HOUSEHOLD; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEGIONELLA; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM; PATHOGENICITY;

ACANTHAMOEBA; CORYNEBACTERINEAE; LEGIONELLA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

AMOEBA; CHLORAMINES; CHLORINE; DISINFECTANTS; GENETIC MARKERS; HOUSEHOLD ARTICLES; LEGIONELLA; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; MYCOBACTERIUM; POLYVINYL CHLORIDE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84937484959     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b01538     Document Type: Article

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