ReviewCurrent opinion in biotechnology2019
The flux and impact of wastewater infrastructure microorganisms on human and ecosystem health.
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- Global wastewater microbiome reveals core bacterial community and viral diversity with regional antibiotic resistance patterns.mSystems · 2025Article
- Potential Exposure to Respiratory and Enteric Bacterial Pathogens among Wastewater Treatment Plant Workers, South Africa.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
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- Sequencing and Variant Detection of Eight Abundant Plant-Infecting Tobamoviruses across Southern California Wastewater.Microbiology spectrum · 2022Article
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- Preparation of Copper-Decorated Activated Carbon Derived fromMaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Longitudinal metatranscriptomic sequencing of Southern California wastewater representing 16 million people from August 2020-21 reveals widespread transcription of antibiotic resistance genes.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2022Article
- Humans and Hoofed Livestock Are the Main Sources of Fecal Contamination of Rivers Used for Crop Irrigation: A Microbial Source Tracking Approach.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- RNA Viromics of Southern California Wastewater and Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Single-Nucleotide Variants.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2021Article
- The emergency discharge of sewage to the Bay of Gdańsk as a source of bacterial enrichment in coastal air.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Ultrafiltration Process in Disinfection and Advanced Treatment of Tertiary Treated Wastewater.Membranes · 2021Article
- Interaction between CO2-consuming autotrophy and CO2-producing heterotrophy in non-axenic phototrophic biofilms.PloS one · 2021Article
- Viral and Bacterial Fecal Indicators in Untreated Wastewater across the Contiguous United States Exhibit Geospatial Trends.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Wastewater infrastructure is designed, in part, to remove microorganisms. However, many microorganisms are able to colonize infrastructure and resist treatment, resulting in an enormous flux of microorganisms to urban adjacent waters. These urban-associated microorganisms are discharged through three primary routes 1) failing infrastructure, 2) stormwater, and 3) treated wastewater effluent. Bacterial load estimates indicate failing infrastructure should be considered an equivalent source of microbial pollution as the other routes, but overall discharges are not well parameterized. More sophisticated methods, such as machine learning algorithms and microbiome characterization, are now used to track urban-derived microorganisms, including targets beyond fecal indicators, but development of methods to quantify the impact of these microbes/genes on human and ecosystem health is needed.
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