Bacterial community radial-spatial distribution in biofilms along pipe wall in chlorinated drinking water distribution system of East China

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• 作者：Jingqing Liu ; Hongxing Ren ; Xianbei Ye ; Wei Wang…
• 关键词：Biofilms ; Drinking water distribution system ; Bacterial community ; Radial ; spatial distribution ; Possible pathogens
• 刊名：Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：101
• 期：2
• 页码：749-759
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• 刊物类别：Chemistry and Materials Science
• 刊物主题：Microbiology; Microbial Genetics and Genomics; Biotechnology;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1432-0614
• 卷排序：101

文摘

Biofilms in the pipe wall may lead to water quality deterioration and biological instability in drinking water distribution systems (DWDSs). In this study, bacterial community radial-spatial distribution in biofilms along the pipe wall in a chlorinated DWDS of East China was investigated. Three pipes of large diameter (300, 600, and 600 mm) were sampled in this DWDS, including a ductile cast iron pipe (DCIP) with pipe age of 11 years and two gray cast iron pipes (GCIP) with pipe ages of 17 and 19 years, and biofilms in the upper, middle, and lower parts of each pipe wall were collected. Real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) and culture-based method were used to quantify bacteria. 454 pyrosequencing was used for bacterial community analysis. The results showed that the biofilm density and total solid (TS) and volatile solid (VS) contents increased gradually from the top to the bottom along the pipe wall. Microorganisms were concentrated in the upper and lower parts of the pipe wall, together accounting for more than 80 % of the total biomass in the biofilms. The bacterial communities in biofilms were significantly different in different areas of the pipe wall and had no strong interaction. Compared with the upper and lower parts of the pipe wall, the bacterial community in the middle of the pipe wall was distributed evenly and had the highest diversity. The 16S rRNA genes of various possible pathogens, including Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Salmonella enterica, were detected in the biofilms, and the abundances of these possible pathogens were highest in the middle of the pipe wall among three areas. The detachment of the biofilms is the main reason for the deterioration of the water quality in DWDSs. The results of this study suggest that the biofilms in the middle of the pipe wall have highly potential risk for drinking water safety, which provides new ideas for the study of the microbial ecology in DWDS.