Diverse and active archaea communities occur in non-disinfected drinking water systems-Less activity revealed in disinfected and hot water systems.

ABSTRACT: The knowledge about the members of active archaea communities in DWDS is limited. The current understanding is based on high-throughput 16S ribosomal RNA gene (DNA-based) amplicon sequencing that reveals the diversity of active, dormant, and dead members of the prokaryote (bacteria, archaea) communities. The sequencing primers optimized for bacteria community analysis may underestimate the share of the archaea community. This study characterized archaea communities at five full-scale drinking water distribution systems (DWDS), representing a variety of drinking water production units (A-E); A&B use artificially recharged non-disinfected groundwater (ARG), the other DWDS's supplied water disinfected by using ultraviolet (UV) light and chlorine compounds, C&D were surface waterworks and E wa

SUBMITTER: Inkinen J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8131914 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature