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ArticleThe Science of the total environment2024

Reconsider the burn: The transient effect of a chlorine burn on controlling opportunistic pathogens in a full-scale chloraminated engineered water system.

Chiqian Zhang, Nathan Sienkiewicz, Ian Struewing, Jatin H Mistry, Helen Buse, Zhiqiang Hu, Jingrang Lu

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Article in The Science of the total environment, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Chiqian ZhangCivil Engineering Program, College of Engineering & Computer Science, Arkansas State University, AR 72467, United States.
Nathan SienkiewiczOffice of Research and Development, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH 45268, United States.
Ian StruewingOffice of Research and Development, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH 45268, United States.
Jatin H MistryUnited States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 6, Dallas, TX 75270, United States.
Helen BuseOffice of Research and Development, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH 45268, United States.
Zhiqiang HuDepartment of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, United States.
Jingrang LuOffice of Research and Development, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH 45268, United States. Electronic address: lu.jingrang@epa.gov.
Environmental Protection Agency · USArkansas State University · USUniversity of Missouri · US

Funding

Intramural EPA EPA999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nitrification is a serious water-quality issue in chloraminated engineered water systems (EWSs). Nitrification is often remediated by a chlorine burn (i.e., a free‑chlorine conversion), a short-term switch from chloramination to chlorination in EWSs. Opportunistic pathogens (OPs) are the dominant infectious agents in EWSs. However, the responses of OPs to a chlorine burn are unknown. This study for the first time assessed how a chlorine burn affected OPs in a full-scale EWS. We determined the impact of a 1.5-month chlorine burn on four dominant OPs (Legionella, Mycobacterium, Pseudomonas, and Vermamoeba vermiformis) in a representative full-scale chloraminated EWS in the United States. Legionella and Mycobacterium were the most abundant OPs. In the water main, the summed concentration of the four OPs during the chlorine burn [3.27 ± 1.58 log

Indexed as

ChloraminesChlorineWater MicrobiologyWater PurificationDisinfectantsHalogenationWater QualityChloraminesChlorineDisinfectantsDisinfectant residualsFree chlorineLegionellaMonochloramineMycobacteriumNitrification

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PMID38670361
PMCPMC12087474
OpenAlexW4395085194

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