Characterization of bacterial communities in wastewater with enhanced taxonomic resolution by full-length 16S rRNA sequencing.

ABSTRACT: Wastewater treatment is crucial to environmental hygiene in urban environments. However, wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) collect chemicals, organic matter, and microorganisms including pathogens and multi-resistant bacteria from various sources which may be potentially released into the environment via WWTP effluent. To better understand microbial dynamics in WWTPs, we characterized and compared the bacterial community of the inflow and effluent of a WWTP in Berlin, Germany using full-length 16S rRNA gene sequences, which allowed for species level determination in many cases and generally resolved bacterial taxa. Significantly distinct bacterial communities were identified in the wastewater inflow and effluent samples. Dominant operational taxonomic units (OTUs) varied both temporally

SUBMITTER: Numberger D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6609626 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature