Metagenomes of microbial communities in arsenic- and pathogen-contaminated well and surface water from bangladesh

Alice C Layton; Archana Chauhan; Daniel E Williams; Brian Mailloux; Peter S K Knappett; Andrew S Ferguson; Larry D McKay; M Jahangir Alam; Kazi Matin Ahmed; Alexander van Geen; Gary S Sayler

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01170-14

Metagenomes of microbial communities in arsenic- and pathogen-contaminated well and surface water from bangladesh

Genome Announc. 2014 Nov 20;2(6):e01170-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01170-14.

Affiliations

¹ Center for Environmental Biotechnology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.
² Department of Environmental Science, Barnard College, New York, New York, USA.
³ Department of Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.
⁴ Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
⁵ Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.
⁶ Department of Geology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁷ Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, New York, USA.
⁸ sayler@utk.edu.

Abstract

The contamination of drinking water from both arsenic and microbial pathogens occurs in Bangladesh. A general metagenomic survey of well water and surface water provided information on the types of pathogens present and may help elucidate arsenic metabolic pathways and potential assay targets for monitoring surface-to-ground water pathogen transport.

Grants and funding

R01 TW008066/TW/FIC NIH HHS/United States