Next generation sequencing approaches to evaluate water and wastewater quality

E Garner, BC Davis, E Milligan, MF Blair, I Keenum… - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
The emergence of next generation sequencing (NGS) is revolutionizing the potential to
address complex microbiological challenges in the water industry. NGS technologies can …

Enhancing diversity analysis by repeatedly rarefying next generation sequencing data describing microbial communities

ES Cameron, PJ Schmidt, BJM Tremblay, MB Emelko… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Amplicon sequencing has revolutionized our ability to study DNA collected from
environmental samples by providing a rapid and sensitive technique for microbial …

The not-so-sterile womb: evidence that the human fetus is exposed to bacteria prior to birth

LF Stinson, MC Boyce, MS Payne… - Frontiers in microbiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The human microbiome includes trillions of bacteria, many of which play a vital role in host
physiology. Numerous studies have now detected bacterial DNA in first-pass meconium and …

Nitrospira as versatile nitrifiers: Taxonomy, ecophysiology, genome characteristics, growth, and metabolic diversity

A Vijayan, RK Vattiringal Jayadradhan… - Journal of Basic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The global nitrogen cycle is of paramount significance as it affects important processes like
primary productivity and decomposition. Nitrification, the oxidation of ammonia to nitrate via …

Long-term spatial and temporal microbial community dynamics in a large-scale drinking water distribution system with multiple disinfectant regimes

S Potgieter, A Pinto, M Sigudu, H Du Preez, E Ncube… - Water Research, 2018 - Elsevier
Long-term spatial-temporal investigations of microbial dynamics in full-scale drinking water
distribution systems are scarce. These investigations can reveal the process, infrastructure …

[HTML][HTML] Microbiomes in drinking water treatment and distribution: A meta-analysis from source to tap

C Thom, CJ Smith, G Moore, P Weir, UZ Ijaz - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
A meta-analysis of existing and available Illumina 16S rRNA datasets from drinking water
source, treatment and drinking water distribution systems (DWDS) were collated to compare …

Microbiome of drinking water: A full-scale spatio-temporal study to monitor water quality in the Paris distribution system

Y Perrin, D Bouchon, V Delafont, L Moulin, Y Héchard - Water Research, 2019 - Elsevier
The microbiological water quality of drinking water distribution system (DWDS) is of primary
importance for human health. High-throughput sequencing has gained more and more …

Emerging investigators series: microbial communities in full-scale drinking water distribution systems–a meta-analysis

QM Bautista-de los Santos, JL Schroeder… - … : Water Research & …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
In this study, we co-analyze all available 16S rRNA gene sequencing studies from bulk
drinking water samples in full-scale drinking water distribution systems. Consistent with …

Assessing the efficacy of bleaching powder in disinfecting marine water: Insights from the rapid recovery of microbiomes

Y Tang, H Zhang, J Yan, N Luo, X Fu, X Wu, J Wu… - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Single-bleaching powder disinfection is a highly prevalent practice to disinfect source water
for marine aquaculture to prevent diseases. However, due to the decay of active chlorine …

Investigation of detection limits and the influence of DNA extraction and primer choice on the observed microbial communities in drinking water samples using 16S …

J Brandt, M Albertsen - Frontiers in microbiology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
In recent years, 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing has been widely adopted for
analyzing the microbial communities in drinking water (DW). However, no comprehensive …