Water Microbiology

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A genomic catalog of Earth's microbiomes. 
  • A randomized controlled trial of household-based flocculant-disinfectant drinking water treatment for diarrhea prevention in rural Guatemala. 
  • Access to Household Water Quality Information Leads to Safer Water: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in india. 
  • An obligately photosynthetic bacterial anaerobe from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. 
  • An outbreak of Shigella sonnei gastroenteritis on Colorado River raft trips. 
  • Bacterial community responses to a gradient of alkaline mountaintop mine drainage in Central Appalachian streams. 
  • Bacterial contamination associated with estuarine shoreline development 
  • Bacterial indicators of risk of diarrhoeal disease from drinking-water in the Philippines. 
  • Bringing molecular tools into environmental resource management: untangling the molecules to policy pathway. 
  • Calibrating and validating bacterial water quality models: a Bayesian approach. 
  • Cholera prevention with traditional and novel water treatment methods: an outbreak investigation in Fort-Dauphin, Madagascar. 
  • Comparing serologic response against enteric pathogens with reported diarrhea to assess the impact of improved household drinking water quality. 
  • Contamination of weaning foods and transmission of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli diarrhoea in children in rural Bangladesh. 
  • Direct observation of hygiene in a Peruvian shantytown: not enough handwashing and too little water. 
  • Distribution and fate of neutral alkylphenol ethoxylate metabolites in a sewage-impacted urban estuary. 
  • Effect of point-of-use disinfection, flocculation and combined flocculation-disinfection on drinking water quality in western Kenya. 
  • Effects of pharmaceutically active compounds on a mixed microbial community originating from a municipal wastewater treatment plant. 
  • Effects of selected pharmaceutically active compounds on treatment performance in sequencing batch reactors mimicking wastewater treatment plants operations. 
  • Environmental controls on the landscape-scale biogeography of stream bacterial communities. 
  • Evaluation of a field appropriate membrane filtration method for the detection of Vibrio cholerae for the measurement of biosand filter performance in the Artibonite Valley, Haiti. 
  • Global gene expression of Prochlorococcus ecotypes in response to changes in nitrogen availability. 
  • Gold nanoparticle biodissolution by a freshwater macrophyte and its associated microbiome. 
  • Higher normalized concentrations of tetracycline resistance found in ballast and harbor water compared to ocean water. 
  • How are species interactions structured in species-rich communities? A new method for analysing time-series data. 
  • Hydrothermal vent fields and chemosynthetic biota on the world's deepest seafloor spreading centre. 
  • In search of microbial indicator taxa: shifts in stream bacterial communities along an urbanization gradient. 
  • Indicator species characterization and removal in a detention pond in the Plaster Creek watershed. 
  • Is there foul play in the leaf pocket? The metagenome of floating fern Azolla reveals endophytes that do not fix N2 but may denitrify 
  • Landscape position influences microbial composition and function via redistribution of soil water across a watershed. 
  • Light-driven synchrony of Prochlorococcus growth and mortality in the subtropical Pacific gyre. 
  • Metabarcoding and machine learning analysis of environmental DNA in ballast water arriving to hub ports. 
  • Metapopulation structure of Vibrionaceae among coastal marine invertebrates. 
  • Microbiome composition and implications for ballast water classification using machine learning. 
  • New nitrogen-fixing microorganisms detected in oligotrophic oceans by amplification of Nitrogenase (nifH) genes. 
  • Novel use of a swimming pool biocide in the treatment of a rare fungal mastoiditis. 
  • Occurrence of Vibrio species, beta-lactam resistant Vibrio species, and indicator bacteria in ballast and port waters of a tropical harbor. 
  • Open Waste Canals as Potential Sources of Antimicrobial Resistance Genes in Aerosols in Urban Kanpur, India. 
  • Outbreak of leptospirosis among triathlon participants and community residents in Springfield, Illinois, 1998. 
  • Outbreaks of waterborne disease in the United States, 1973. 
  • Patterns and mechanisms of genetic and phenotypic differentiation in marine microbes. 
  • Protozoal agents: what are the dangers for the public water supply? 
  • Pyrogenic reactions in hemodialysis patients, Hanoi, Vietnam. 
  • Rahnella aquatilis, an unusual gram-negative rod isolated from the bronchial washing of a patient with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. 
  • Relative contributions of mercury bioavailability and microbial growth rate on net methylmercury production by anaerobic mixed cultures. 
  • Remodelling of the Vibrio cholerae membrane by incorporation of exogenous fatty acids from host and aquatic environments. 
  • Sampling out: regulatory avoidance and the Total Coliform Rule. 
  • Seasonal influence of scallop culture on nutrient flux, bacterial pathogens and bacterioplankton diversity across estuaries off the Bohai Sea Coast of Northern China. 
  • Seasonal variation of Microcystis in Lake Taihu and its relationships with environmental factors. 
  • Sharing Shigella: risk factors for a multicommunity outbreak of shigellosis. 
  • Shigellosis at sea: an outbreak aboard a passenger cruise ship. 
  • The effect of water quality testing on household behavior: evidence from an experiment in rural India. 
  • Thermodynamic constraints on the utility of ecological stoichiometry for explaining global biogeochemical patterns. 
  • Travelers' diarrhea in Mexico. A prospective study of physicians and family members attending a congress. 
  • Travelers' diarrhea. 
  • Vertical distribution and characterization of aerobic phototrophic bacteria at the Juan de Fuca Ridge in the Pacific Ocean. 
  • Water quality perceptions and willingness to pay for clean water in peri-urban Cambodian communities. 
  • Water quality risks of 'improved' water sources: evidence from Cambodia. 
  • Why "improved" water sources are not always safe. 
  • Wildlife identified as major source of Escherichia coli in agriculturally dominated watersheds by BOX A1R-derived genetic fingerprints. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Wolpert, Robert L., Professor Emeritus of Statistical Science, Environmental Sciences and Policy