Conventional wastewater treatment and reuse site practices modify bacterial community structure but do not eliminate some opportunistic pathogens in reclaimed water
Kulkarni P, Olson N, Paulson J, Pop M, Maddox C, Claye E, Goldstein R, Sharma M, Gibbs S, Mongodin E, Sapkota A. Conventional wastewater treatment and reuse site practices modify bacterial community structure but do not eliminate some opportunistic pathogens in reclaimed water. The Science Of The Total Environment 2018, 639: 1126-1137. PMID: 29929281, PMCID: PMC8290890, DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.05.178.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsWastewater treatment plantsTreatment plantsWastewater treatmentSpray irrigation siteMunicipal wastewater treatment plantU.S. wastewater treatment plantsConventional wastewater treatmentReclaimed waterIrrigated sitesCommunity structureBacterial communitiesFuture treatment technologiesOpen-air storageOn-site treatmentTreatment technologiesAlpha diversity of bacterial communitiesUltraviolet treatmentOperational taxonomic unitsRRNA gene sequencesInfluentBacterial community structureSprayWastewaterPumphouseWater recycling