Nonbacterial Microflora in Wastewater Treatment Plants: an Underappreciated Potential Source of Pathogens.

ABSTRACT: Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) receive and treat large volumes of domestic, industrial, and urban wastewater containing pathogenic and nonpathogenic microorganisms, chemical compounds, heavy metals, and other potentially hazardous substances. WWTPs play an essential role in preserving human, animal, and environmental health by removing many of these toxic and infectious agents, particularly biological hazards. Wastewater contains complex consortiums of bacterial, viral, archaeal, and eukaryotic species, and while bacteria in WWTP have been extensively studied, the temporal and spatial distribution of nonbacterial microflora (viruses, archaea, and eukaryotes) is less understood. In this study, we analyzed the viral, archaeal, and eukaryotic microflora in wastewater throughout a treatme

SUBMITTER: Ariyadasa S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10269893 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature