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Vertical stratification of the water microbiome in an electric water heater tank

Published by U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD) | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | Metadata Last Checked: August 02, 2025 | Last Modified: 2024-02-16
The raw sequence reads have been submitted to the NCBI Sequence Read Archive (SRA) under the BioProject PRJNA961987 with the following BioSample numbers: SAMN39596420, SAMN39596421, SAMN39596422, SAMN39596423, SAMN39596424, SAMN39596425, SAMN39596426, SAMN39596427, SAMN39596428, SAMN39596429, SAMN39596430, SAMN39596431, SAMN39596432, SAMN39596433, SAMN39596434, SAMN39596435, SAMN39596436, SAMN39596437, and SAMN39596438. A table (Table_diversity_indices.xlsx) contains rows as samples with ID, columns as distance from top to bottom (cm), sample volume (L), flushed volume (L), diversity indices (Chao and Shannon), and water temperature (°C) for each Set of samples. A table (Table_Legiolert.xlsx) contains rows as samples with ID, columns as distance from top to bottom (cm), sample volume (L), flushed volume (L), abundance of cultured Legionella pneumophila (MPN/100mL), and water temperature (°C) for each Set of samples. A table (Table_qPCR_L_pneumophila.xlsx) contains rows as samples with ID, columns as distance from top to bottom (cm), sample volume (L), flushed volume (L), copy number of L. pneumophila (GCN/100mL), and water temperature (°C) for each Set of samples. A table (Table_qPCR_Legionella.xlsx) contains rows as samples with ID, columns as distance from top to bottom (cm), sample volume (L), flushed volume (L), copy number of Legionella spp. (GCN/100mL), and water temperature (°C) for each Set of samples. A table (Table_qPCR_Mycobacterium.xlsx) contains rows as samples with ID, columns as distance from top to bottom (cm), sample volume (L), flushed volume (L), copy number of Mycobacterium spp. (GCN/100mL), and water temperature (°C) for each Set of samples. A table (Table_qPCR_V_vermiformis.xlsx) contains rows as samples with ID, columns as distance from top to bottom (cm), sample volume (L), flushed volume (L), copy number of V. vermiformis (GCN/100mL), and water temperature (°C) for each Set of samples. An abundance matrix (Table_taxonomy.xlsx) contains rows as taxonomic lineage, columns as samples, and entries representing the abundance of each lineage as a number of reads obtained for each Set of samples. A table (Table_water_temperature.xlsx) contains rows as water samples with ID, columns as temperature (°C and °F) measured from the top, bottom and drain of the water tank for each Set of samples. This dataset is associated with the following publication: Gomez-Alvarez, V., H. Ryu, M. McNeely, C. Muhlen, D. Williams, D. Lytle, and L. Boczek. Vertical Stratification of the Water Microbiome in an Electric Water Heater Tank: implications for premise plumbing opportunistic pathogens. JOURNAL OF WATER AND HEALTH. IWA Publishing, London, UK, 22(12): 2346–2357, (2024).

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  "Legionella pneumophila",
  "Premise Plumbing",
  "hot water tank",
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license https://pasteur.epa.gov/license/sciencehub-license.html
modified 2024-02-16
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title Vertical stratification of the water microbiome in an electric water heater tank

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