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ArticleEnvironmental science & technology2023

Shotgun Metagenomics Reveals Impacts of Copper and Water Heater Anodes on Pathogens and Microbiomes in Hot Water Plumbing Systems.

Yang Song, Rachel Finkelstein, William Rhoads, Marc A Edwards, Amy Pruden

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Article in Environmental science & technology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 10% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Influence of Copper Dose onACS ES&T water · 2025
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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

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yang SongCivil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, 1145 Perry St., 418 Durham Hall, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-3040-0414
Rachel FinkelsteinCivil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, 1145 Perry St., 418 Durham Hall, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, United States.
William RhoadsCivil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, 1145 Perry St., 418 Durham Hall, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-9325-4680
Marc A EdwardsCivil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, 1145 Perry St., 418 Durham Hall, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-1889-1193
Amy PrudenCivil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, 1145 Perry St., 418 Durham Hall, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-3191-6244
Virginia Tech · USWaverly Hematology Oncology · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hot water building plumbing systems are vulnerable to the proliferation of opportunistic pathogens (OPs), including

Indexed as

MicrobiotaWaterCopperElectrodesMetagenomicsPhosphatesSanitary EngineeringCopperPhosphatesWateranodescoppermicrobiomeopportunistic pathogensorthophosphateshotgun metagenomics

Identifiers

PMID37643149
PMCPMC10501123
OpenAlexW4386245302

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Registered trials

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