Year: 2003
Type: article
Abstract: Microbial growth in drinking water systems evokes quality, health, aesthetic, and technical problems.The conventional analyses of microbes in drinking water systems include determination of microbial biomass, activity or specific microbes.Unfortunately, culturing techniques reveal only 0.01-10% of the microbes actually present in drinking water systems.Lipid biomarkers e.g.phospholipid fatty acids (PLFAs) and lipopolysaccharide hydroxy fatty acids (LPS OH-FAs) provide quantitative insight to the complex microbial communities and their amounts in environmental samples without the need for microbial culturing.PLFAs can
Author: Minna M. Keinänen
Language: English
Subfield: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: Suomen Kulttuurirahasto
OpenAlex ID: W1413605311