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Bacterial community dynamics in a cooling tower with emphasis on pathogenic bacteria and Legionella s pecies using universal and genus-specific deep sequencing
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Pereira, Rui P. A., Peplies, Jörg, Höfle, Manfred G. and Brettar, Ingrid (2017) Bacterial community dynamics in a cooling tower with emphasis on pathogenic bacteria and Legionella s pecies using universal and genus-specific deep sequencing. Water Research, 122 . pp. 363-376. doi:10.1016/j.watres.2017.06.011 ISSN 0043-1354.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2017.06.011
Abstract
Cooling towers are the major source of outbreaks of legionellosis in Europe and worldwide. These outbreaks are mostly associated with Legionella species, primarily L. pneumophila, and its surveillance in cooling tower environments is of high relevance to public health. In this study, a combined NGS-based approach was used to study the whole bacterial community, specific waterborne and water-based bacterial pathogens, especially Legionella species, targeting the 16S rRNA gene. This approach was applied to water from a cooling tower obtained by monthly sampling during two years. The studied cooling tower was an open circuit cooling tower with lamellar cooling situated in Braunschweig, Germany. A highly diverse bacterial community was observed with 808 genera including 25 potentially pathogenic taxa using universal 16S rRNA primers. Sphingomonas and Legionella were the most abundant pathogenic genera. By applying genus-specific primers for Legionella, a diverse community with 85 phylotypes, and a representative core community with substantial temporal heterogeneity was observed. A high percentage of sequences (65%) could not be affiliated to an acknowledged species. L. pneumophila was part of the core community and the most abundant Legionella species reinforcing the importance of cooling towers as its environmental reservoir. Major temperature shifts (>10 °C) were the key environmental factor triggering the reduction or dominance of the Legionella species in the Legionella community dynamics. In addition, interventions by chlorine dioxide had a strong impact on the Legionella community composition but not on the whole bacterial community. Overall, the presented results demonstrated the value of a combined NGS approach for the molecular monitoring and surveillance of health related pathogens in man-made freshwater systems.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Life Sciences (2010- ) | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Water Research | ||||||
| Publisher: | Elsevier Science Ltd. | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0043-1354 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 1 October 2017 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 122 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 363-376 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.watres.2017.06.011 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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