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Appl Environ Microbiol ; 74(17): 5297-304, 2008 Sep.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18621875

ABSTRACT

The origin, structure, and composition of biofilms in various compartments of an industrial full-scale reverse-osmosis (RO) membrane water purification plant were analyzed by molecular biological methods. Samples were taken when the RO installation suffered from a substantial pressure drop and decreased production. The bacterial community of the RO membrane biofilm was clearly different from the bacterial community present at other locations in the RO plant, indicating the development of a specialized bacterial community on the RO membranes. The typical freshwater phylotypes in the RO membrane biofilm (i.e., Proteobacteria, Cytophaga-Flexibacter-Bacteroides group, and Firmicutes) were also present in the water sample fed to the plant, suggesting a feed water origin. However, the relative abundances of the different species in the mature biofilm were different from those in the feed water, indicating that the biofilm was actively formed on the RO membrane sheets and was not the result of a concentration of bacteria present in the feed water. The majority of the microorganisms (59% of the total number of clones) in the biofilm were related to the class Proteobacteria, with a dominance of Sphingomonas spp. (27% of all clones). Members of the genus Sphingomonas seem to be responsible for the biofouling of the membranes in the RO installation.


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Bacteria/genetics , Biofilms/growth & development , Water Microbiology , Water Purification/methods , Bacteria/growth & development , Base Sequence , DNA, Bacterial/genetics , Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field , Gene Library , Molecular Sequence Data , Osmosis , Phylogeny , Polymerase Chain Reaction , RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/genetics , Water Pollutants/analysis
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J Appl Microbiol ; 103(6): 2638-44, 2007 Dec.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18045446

ABSTRACT

AIMS: To evaluate the diversity of the Lactobacillus group in breast milk and the vagina of healthy women and understand their potential role in the infant gut colonization using the 16S rRNA gene approaches. METHODS AND RESULTS: Samples of breast milk, vaginal swabs and infant faeces were aseptically collected from five mothers whose neonates were born by vaginal delivery and another five that had their babies by caesarean section. After polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification using Lactobacillus group-specific primers, amplicons were analysed by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE). Clone libraries were constructed to describe the Lactobacillus group diversity. DGGE fingerprints were not related to the delivery method. None of the species detected in vaginal samples were found in breast milk-derived libraries and only few were detected in infant faeces. CONCLUSIONS: The bacterial composition of breast milk and infant faeces is not related to the delivery method. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY: It has been suggested that neonates acquire lactobacilli by oral contamination with vaginal strains during delivery; subsequently, newborns would transmit such bacteria to the breast during breastfeeding. However, our findings confirm, at the molecular level that in contrast to the maternal vagina, breast milk seems to constitute a good source of lactobacilli to the infant gut.


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Gastrointestinal Tract/microbiology , Lactobacillus/isolation & purification , Milk, Human/microbiology , Probiotics/isolation & purification , Vagina/microbiology , Breast Feeding , Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel , Female , Genes, Bacterial , Humans , Infant, Newborn , Lactobacillus/genetics , Nucleic Acid Denaturation , Polymerase Chain Reaction/methods , Ribotyping
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Water Sci Technol ; 55(8-9): 181-90, 2007.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17546985

ABSTRACT

In the present study, the diversity and the phylogenetic affiliation of bacteria in a biofouling layer on reverse osmosis (RO) membranes were determined. Fresh surface water was used as a feed in a membrane-based water purification process. Total DNA was extracted from attached cells from feed spacer, RO membrane and product spacer. Universal primers were used to amplify the bacterial 16S rRNA genes. The biofilm community was analysed by 16S rRNA-gene-targeted denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) and the phylogenetic affiliation was determined by sequence analyses of individual 16S rDNA clones. Using this approach, we found that five distinct bacterial genotypes (Sphingomonas, Beta proteobacterium, Flavobacterium, Nitrosomonas and Sphingobacterium) were dominant genera on surfaces of fouled RO membranes. Moreover, the finding that all five "key players" could be recovered from the cartridge filters of this RO system, which cartridge filters are positioned before the RO membrane, together with literature information where these bacteria are normally encountered, suggests that these microorganisms originate from the feed water rather than from the RO system itself, and represent the fresh water bacteria present in the feed water, despite the fact that the feed water passes an ultrafiltration (UF) membrane (pore size approximately 40 nm), which is able to remove microorganisms to a large extent.


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Bacteria/classification , Biofilms/classification , Membranes, Artificial , Water Purification/methods , Bacteria/genetics , Bacteria/isolation & purification , Biofilms/growth & development , Filtration , Genes, rRNA/genetics , Osmosis , Phylogeny , Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length , RNA, Bacterial/analysis , RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/analysis
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