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ArticleJournal of environmental management2016

The effect of malathion on the activity, performance, and microbial ecology of activated sludge.

Erik Rauglas, Seth Martin, Kandace Bailey, Matthew Magnuson, Rebecca Phillips, Willie F Harper

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Article in Journal of environmental management, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 35% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Erik RauglasAir Force Institute of Technology, Department of Systems Engineering and Management, 2950 Hobson Way, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433, USA.
Seth MartinAir Force Institute of Technology, Department of Systems Engineering and Management, 2950 Hobson Way, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433, USA.
Kandace BaileyOak Ridge Institute of Science and Education Program, Air Force Institute of Technology, Department of Systems Engineering and Management, 2950 Hobson Way, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433, USA.
Matthew MagnusonUS Environmental Protection Agency, National Homeland Security Research Center, Water Infrastructure Protection Division, 26 W. Martin Luther King Dr., Mailstop NG-16, Cincinnati, OH 45268, USA.
Rebecca PhillipsOak Ridge Institute of Science and Education Program, US Environmental Protection Agency, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, ML-8801 RR, Washington, DC 20011, USA.
Willie F HarperAir Force Institute of Technology, Department of Systems Engineering and Management, 2950 Hobson Way, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433, USA. Electronic address: willie.harper@afit.edu.
U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology · USEnvironmental Protection Agency · US

Funding

Intramural EPA EPA999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study evaluated the effect of a VX (O-ethyl S-[2-(diisopropylamino)ethyl] methylphosphonothioate) surrogate (malathion) on the activity, performance, and ecology of activated sludge bioreactors. In the presence of malathion, the maximum observed respiration rates varied between 43 and 53 μg/O2 min, generally similar to the 49 μg O2/min rates observed in controls. Malathion did not alter the respiration ratio of O2 consumed-to-CO2 produced nor did it impact the shape of the oxygen consumption curves during respirometry. Shorter term (12 h) batch tests showed that both chemical oxygen demand (COD) and ammonia removal were not negatively impacted by the presence of 0.1-3 mg/L malathion. Longer term continuous addition (i.e. 40 days) of 0.1 mg/L of malathion also had no effect on COD and ammonia removal. In contrast to shorter term exposures, longer term continuous addition of 3 mg/L of malathion negatively impacted both COD and nitrogen removal and was associated with shifts in the abundance of species that are common to activated sludge. These results illustrate the impact that chemicals like malathion may have on COD removal, and nitrification, as well as the robustness of activated sludge microbial communities.

Indexed as

AmmoniaBiodegradation, EnvironmentalBiological Oxygen Demand AnalysisBioreactorsEnvironmental MonitoringMalathionMicrobiotaNitrificationSewageAmmoniaMalathionSewageActivated sludgeEcologyInhibitionMalathionRespiration

Identifiers

PMID27594690
PMCPMC5797651
OpenAlexW2510925569

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