ReviewInternational microbiology : the official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology2015
The microbiome of urban waters.
Review in International microbiology : the official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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34 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 107 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Tracking Age-Linked Antibiotic Resistance Patterns through Building-Level Wastewater Analysis.ACS ES&T water · 2025Article
- Environmental DNA analysis at multiple taxonomic levels highlights geographic variation in subtropical coastal marine communities.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Genomic Features of E. ruysiae Associated with the Ecological Origin: Implications for the Environmental Hypothesis.Current microbiology · 2025Article
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- Sewer microbiomes shape microbial community composition and dynamics of wastewater treatment plants.The ISME journal · 2025Article
- Microbiota Composition Associates With Mosquito Productivity Outcomes in Belowground Larval Habitats.Molecular ecology · 2025Article
- Spatio-Temporal Variation in the Exceedance of Enterococci in Lake Burley Griffin: An Analysis of 16 Years' Recreational Water Quality Monitoring Data.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
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- Changes in groundwater and surface water bacterial communities under disinfection processes: Chlorination, ozonization, photo-fenton and ultraviolet radiation.Current research in microbial sciences · 2024Article
- Inferring microbial co-occurrence networks from amplicon data: a systematic evaluation.mSystems · 2023Article
- Evidence of Bacterial Community Coalescence between Freshwater and DischargedMicroorganisms · 2023Article
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- Shared and contrasting associations in the dynamic nano- and picoplankton communities of two close but contrasting sites from the Bay of Biscay.Environmental microbiology · 2022Article
- Recovery of High Quality Metagenome-Assembled Genomes From Full-Scale Activated Sludge Microbial Communities in a Tropical Climate Using Longitudinal Metagenome Sampling.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- EvaluatingMicrobiology spectrum · 2021Article
- Unraveling the ecological processes modulating the population structure of Escherichia coli in a highly polluted urban stream network.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Microbial retention and resistances in stormwater quality improvement devices treating road runoff.FEMS microbes · 2021Article
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
More than 50% of the world's population lives in urban centers. As collection basins for landscape activity, urban waters are an interface between human activity and the natural environment. The microbiome of urban waters could provide insight into the impacts of pollution, the presence of human health risks, or the potential for long-term consequences for these ecosystems and the people who depend upon them. An integral part of the urban water cycle is sewer infrastructure. Thousands of miles of pipes line cities as part of wastewater and stormwater systems. As stormwater and sewage are released into natural waterways, traces of human and animal microbiomes reflect the sources and magnitude of fecal pollution and indicate the presence of pollutants, such as nutrients, pathogens, and chemicals. Non-fecal organisms are also released as part of these systems. Runoff from impervious surfaces delivers microbes from soils, plants and the built environment to stormwater systems. Further, urban sewer infrastructure contains its own unique microbial community seemingly adapted to this relatively new artificial habitat. High microbial densities are conveyed via pipes to waterways, and these organisms can be found as an urban microbial signature imprinted on the natural community of rivers and urban coastal waters. The potential consequences of mass releases of non-indigenous microorganisms into natural waters include creation of reservoirs for emerging human pathogens, altered nutrient flows into aquatic food webs, and increased genetic exchange between two distinct gene pools. This review highlights the recent characterization of the microbiome of urban sewer and stormwater infrastructure and its connection to and potential impact upon freshwater systems.
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