ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2006
Persistence of nontuberculous mycobacteria in a drinking water system after addition of filtration treatment.
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- Pulmonary non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections: current state and future management.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2020Review
- Association betweenAnnals of the American Thoracic Society · 2020Article
- Revisiting John Snow to Meet the Challenge of Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Lung Disease.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Review
- The cooling tower water microbiota: Seasonal dynamics and co-occurrence of bacterial and protist phylotypes.Water research · 2019Review
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- Infection Sources of a Common Non-tuberculous Mycobacterial Pathogen,Frontiers in medicine · 2017Review
- Biofilms on Hospital Shower Hoses: Characterization and Implications for Nosocomial Infections.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2016Article
- Isolation and identification of nontuberculous mycobacteria from hospitalized patients and drinking water samples--examination of their correlation by chemometrics.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2016Article
- Epidemiology and Ecology of Opportunistic Premise Plumbing Pathogens: Legionella pneumophila, Mycobacterium avium, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.Environmental health perspectives · 2015Review
- Pyrosequence analysis of the hsp65 genes of nontuberculous mycobacterium communities in unchlorinated drinking water in the Netherlands.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2013Article
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Abstract
There is evidence that drinking water may be a source of infections with pathogenic nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) in humans. One method by which NTM are believed to enter drinking water distribution systems is by their intracellular colonization of protozoa. Our goal was to determine whether we could detect a reduction in the prevalence of NTM recovered from an unfiltered surface drinking water system after the addition of ozonation and filtration treatment and to characterize NTM isolates by using molecular methods. We sampled water from two initially unfiltered surface drinking water treatment plants over a 29-month period. One plant received the addition of filtration and ozonation after 6 months of sampling. Sample sites included those at treatment plant effluents, distributed water, and cold water taps (point-of-use [POU] sites) in public or commercial buildings located within each distribution system. NTM were recovered from 27% of the sites. POU sites yielded the majority of NTM, with >50% recovery despite the addition of ozonation and filtration. Closely related electrophoretic groups of Mycobacterium avium were found to persist at POU sites for up to 26 months. Water collected from POU cold water outlets was persistently colonized with NTM despite the addition of ozonation and filtration to a drinking water system. This suggests that cold water POU outlets need to be considered as a potential source of chronic human exposure to NTM.
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