Microbial Diversity and Putative Opportunistic Pathogens in Dishwasher Biofilm Communities.

ABSTRACT: Extreme habitats are not only limited to natural environments, but also exist in manmade systems, for instance, household appliances such as dishwashers. Limiting factors, such as high temperatures, high and low pHs, high NaCl concentrations, presence of detergents, and shear force from water during washing cycles, define microbial survival in this extreme system. Fungal and bacterial diversity in biofilms isolated from rubber seals of 24 different household dishwashers was investigated using next-generation sequencing. Bacterial genera such as Pseudomonas, Escherichia, and Acinetobacter, known to include opportunistic pathogens, were represented in most samples. The most frequently encountered fungal genera in these samples belonged to Candida, Cryptococcus<

SUBMITTER: Raghupathi PK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5812945 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature