An Update on the Genus Aeromonas: Taxonomy, Epidemiology, and Pathogenicity

A Fernández-Bravo, MJ Figueras - Microorganisms, 2020 - mdpi.com
The genus Aeromonas belongs to the Aeromonadaceae family and comprises a group of
Gram-negative bacteria widely distributed in aquatic environments, with some species able …

Wastewater-based epidemiology biomarkers: past, present and future

PM Choi, BJ Tscharke, E Donner, JW O'Brien… - TrAC Trends in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Wastewater is a complex matrix containing a wide range of chemical and biological markers
of human activity. Relating concentrations of these “waste” materials in wastewater influent …

Seasonal dynamics of the microbial community in two full-scale wastewater treatment plants: diversity, composition, phylogenetic group based assembly and co …

C Sun, B Zhang, D Ning, Y Zhang, T Dai, L Wu, T Li… - Water research, 2021 - Elsevier
The optimal operation and functional stability of a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP)
strongly depend on the properties of its microbial community. However, a knowledge gap …

The structure and diversity of human, animal and environmental resistomes

C Pal, J Bengtsson-Palme, E Kristiansson… - Microbiome, 2016 - Springer
Abstract Background Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) are widespread but cause
problems only when present in pathogens. Environments where selection and transmission …

The activated sludge ecosystem contains a core community of abundant organisms

AM Saunders, M Albertsen, J Vollertsen… - The ISME …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Understanding the microbial ecology of a system requires that the observed population
dynamics can be linked to their metabolic functions. However, functional characterization is …

Characterization of bacterial communities in wastewater with enhanced taxonomic resolution by full-length 16S rRNA sequencing

D Numberger, L Ganzert, L Zoccarato, K Mühldorfer… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Wastewater treatment is crucial to environmental hygiene in urban environments. However,
wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) collect chemicals, organic matter, and …

Bacterial assembly and temporal dynamics in activated sludge of a full-scale municipal wastewater treatment plant

F Ju, T Zhang - The ISME journal, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Understanding environmental and biological influences on the dynamics of microbial
communities has received great attention in microbial ecology. Here, utilizing large time …

454 Pyrosequencing reveals bacterial diversity of activated sludge from 14 sewage treatment plants

T Zhang, MF Shao, L Ye - The ISME journal, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Activated sludge (AS) contains highly complex microbial communities. In this study, PCR-
based 454 pyrosequencing was applied to investigate the bacterial communities of AS …

Back to basics–the influence of DNA extraction and primer choice on phylogenetic analysis of activated sludge communities

M Albertsen, SM Karst, AS Ziegler, RH Kirkegaard… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
DNA extraction and primer choice have a large effect on the observed community structure
in all microbial amplicon sequencing analyses. Although the biases are well known, no …

Ironing out the wrinkles in the rare biosphere through improved OTU clustering

SM Huse, DM Welch, HG Morrison… - Environmental …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Deep sequencing of PCR amplicon libraries facilitates the detection of low‐abundance
populations in environmental DNA surveys of complex microbial communities. At the same …