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ToolsTorondel, Belen, Ensink, Jeroen H.J., Gundogdu, Ozan, Ijaz, Umer Zeeshan, Parkhill, Julian, Abdelahi, Faraji, Nguyen, Viet Anh, Sudgen, Steven, Gibson, Walter, Walker, Alan W. and Quince, Christopher (2016) Assessment of the influence of intrinsic environmental and geographical factors on the bacterial ecology of pit latrines. Microbial Biotechnology, 9 (2). pp. 209-223. ISSN 1751-7907
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Improving the rate and extent of faecal decomposition in basic forms of sanitation such as pit latrines would benefit around 1.7 billion users worldwide, but to do so requires a major advance in our understanding of the biology of these systems. As a critical first step, bacterial diversity and composition was studied in 30 latrines in Tanzania and Vietnam using pyrosequencing of 16S rRNA genes, and correlated with a number of intrinsic environmental factors such as pH, temperature, organic matter content/composition and geographical factors. Clear differences were observed at the operational taxonomic unit, family and phylum level in terms of richness and community composition between latrines in Tanzania and Vietnam. The results also clearly show that environmental variables, particularly substrate type and availability, can exert a strong structuring influence on bacterial communities in latrines from both countries. The origins and significance of these environmental differences are discussed. This work describes the bacterial ecology of pit latrines in combination with inherent latrine characteristics at an unprecedented level of detail. As such, it provides useful baseline information for future studies that aim to understand the factors that affect decomposition rates in pit latrines. This work describes the bacterial ecology of pit latrines in combination with inherent latrine characteristics at an unprecedented level of detail. As such, it provides useful baseline information for future studies that aim to understand the factors that affect decomposition rates in pit latrines
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| Additional Information: | Funding Information: This research received financial support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (grant number OPP52641). AWW and JP were supported by the Wellcome Trust [grant number 098051]. AWW and the Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Aberdeen, receive core funding support from the Scottish Government Rural and Environmental Science and Analysis Service (RESAS). UZ is funded by Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Independent Research Fellowship (NE/ L011956/1). CQ is funded through an Medical Research Council fellowship (MR/M50161X/1) as part of the MRC Cloud Infrastructure for Microbial Bioinformatics consortium (MR/L015080/1). Publisher Copyright: © 2016 Society for Applied Microbiology and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | biotechnology,bioengineering,biochemistry,applied microbiology and biotechnology ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1300/1305 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Biological Sciences |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Sep 2022 08:30 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Oct 2022 01:39 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/88006 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1751-7915.12334 |
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