Moving bed biofilm reactor technology in municipal wastewater treatment: a review

A di Biase, MS Kowalski, TR Devlin… - Journal of environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
The review encompasses the development of municipal wastewater treatment process using
MBBR from early stages, established application, and recent advancements. An overview of …

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) for assessment of microbial water quality: current progress, challenges, and future opportunities

BF Tan, C Ng, JP Nshimyimana, LL Loh… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Water quality is an emergent property of a complex system comprised of interacting
microbial populations and introduced microbial and chemical contaminants. Studies …

Microbiome analysis for wastewater surveillance during COVID-19

KD Brumfield, M Leddy, M Usmani, JA Cotruvo… - MBio, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Wastewater surveillance (WS), when coupled with advanced molecular techniques, offers
near real-time monitoring of community-wide transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and allows …

Microbial community structure of activated sludge in treatment plants with different wastewater compositions

NM Shchegolkova, GS Krasnov, AA Belova… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Activated sludge (AS) plays a crucial role in the treatment of domestic and industrial
wastewater. AS is a biocenosis of microorganisms capable of degrading various pollutants …

Sewage reflects the microbiomes of human populations

RJ Newton, SL McLellan, DK Dila, JH Vineis… - MBio, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
Molecular characterizations of the gut microbiome from individual human stool samples
have identified community patterns that correlate with age, disease, diet, and other human …

Antibiotics and antibiotic resistant bacteria/genes in urban wastewater: A comparison of their fate in conventional treatment systems and constructed wetlands

M Hazra, H Joshi, JB Williams, JEM Watts - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
There is a growing concern that the use and misuse of antibiotics can increase the detection
of antibiotic resistant genes (ARGs) in wastewater. Conventional wastewater treatment …

A critical review of wastewater quality variation and in-sewer processes during conveyance in sewer systems

Y Gao, X Shi, X Jin, XC Wang, P Jin - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
In-sewer physio-biochemical processes cause significant variations of wastewater quality
during conveyance, which affects the influent to a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) and …

Microbial community evolution and fate of antibiotic resistance genes along six different full-scale municipal wastewater treatment processes

J Tong, A Tang, H Wang, X Liu, Z Huang, Z Wang… - Bioresource …, 2019 - Elsevier
The evolution of microbial community and the fate of ARGs along different full-scale
wastewater treatment processes (ie, Anaerobic-Anoxic-Oxic, Oxidation Ditch, and Cyclic …

Interpreting 16S metagenomic data without clustering to achieve sub-OTU resolution

M Tikhonov, RW Leach, NS Wingreen - The ISME journal, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The standard approach to analyzing 16S tag sequence data, which relies on clustering
reads by sequence similarity into Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs), underexploits the …

A microbial signature approach to identify fecal pollution in the waters off an urbanized coast of Lake Michigan

RJ Newton, MJ Bootsma, HG Morrison, ML Sogin… - Microbial ecology, 2013 - Springer
Urban coasts receive watershed drainage from ecosystems that include highly developed
lands with sewer and stormwater infrastructure. In these complex ecosystems, coastal …