Assessing the composition of microbial communities in textile wastewater treatment plants in comparison with municipal wastewater treatment plants.

ABSTRACT: It is assumed that microbial communities involved in the biological treatment of different wastewaters having a different chemical composition harbor different microbial populations which are specifically adapted to the environmental stresses encountered in these systems. Yet, little is known about the composition of these microbial communities. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the microbial community composition over two seasons (winter and summer) in activated sludge from well-operating textile wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in comparison with municipal WWTPs, and to explain observed differences by environmental variables. 454-pyrosequencing generated 160 archaeal and 1645 bacterial species-level Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs), with lower observed richness in activ

SUBMITTER: Meerbergen K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5300884 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature