Title |
Detailed analysis of metagenome datasets obtained from biogas-producing microbial communities residing in biogas reactors does not indicate the presence of putative pathogenic microorganisms
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Published in |
Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts, April 2013
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DOI | 10.1186/1754-6834-6-49 |
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Authors |
Felix G Eikmeyer, Antje Rademacher, Angelika Hanreich, Magdalena Hennig, Sebastian Jaenicke, Irena Maus, Daniel Wibberg, Martha Zakrzewski, Alfred Pühler, Michael Klocke, Andreas Schlüter |
Abstract |
In recent years biogas plants in Germany have been supposed to be involved in amplification and dissemination of pathogenic bacteria causing severe infections in humans and animals. In particular, biogas plants are discussed to contribute to the spreading of Escherichia coli infections in humans or chronic botulism in cattle caused by Clostridium botulinum. Metagenome datasets of microbial communities from an agricultural biogas plant as well as from anaerobic lab-scale digesters operating at different temperatures and conditions were analyzed for the presence of putative pathogenic bacteria and virulence determinants by various bioinformatic approaches. |
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