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Curtis TP, Mara DD, Silva SA. Influence of pH, Oxygen, and Humic Substances on Ability of Sunlight To Damage Fecal Coliforms in Waste Stabilization Pond Water. Appl Environ Microbiol. 1992;58(4):1335-43doi: 10.1128/aem.58.4.1335-1343.1992.
Curtis, T. P., Mara, D. D., & Silva, S. A. (1992). Influence of pH, Oxygen, and Humic Substances on Ability of Sunlight To Damage Fecal Coliforms in Waste Stabilization Pond Water. Applied and environmental microbiology, 58(4), 1335-43. https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.58.4.1335-1343.1992
Curtis, T P, et al. "Influence of pH, Oxygen, and Humic Substances on Ability of Sunlight To Damage Fecal Coliforms in Waste Stabilization Pond Water." Applied and environmental microbiology vol. 58,4 (1992): 1335-43. doi: https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.58.4.1335-1343.1992
Curtis TP, Mara DD, Silva SA. Influence of pH, Oxygen, and Humic Substances on Ability of Sunlight To Damage Fecal Coliforms in Waste Stabilization Pond Water. Appl Environ Microbiol. 1992 Apr;58(4):1335-43. doi: 10.1128/aem.58.4.1335-1343.1992. PMID: 16348698; PMCID: PMC195595.
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Appl Environ Microbiol. 1992 Apr;58(4):1335-43. doi: 10.1128/aem.58.4.1335-1343.1992.

Influence of pH, Oxygen, and Humic Substances on Ability of Sunlight To Damage Fecal Coliforms in Waste Stabilization Pond Water.

Applied and environmental microbiology

T P Curtis, D D Mara, S A Silva

Affiliations

  1. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom, and Estacao Experimental de Tratamentos Biologicos de Esgotos Sanitarios, Universidade Federal da Paraiba, Campina Grande, Paraiba 58100, Brazil.

PMID: 16348698 PMCID: PMC195595 DOI: 10.1128/aem.58.4.1335-1343.1992

Abstract

Simple beaker experiments established that light damages fecal coliforms in waste stabilization ponds by an oxygen-mediated exogenous photosensitization. Wavelengths of up to 700 nm were able to damage bacteria. The ability of wavelengths of >425 nm to damage fecal coliforms was dependent on the presence of dissolved sensitizers. The sensitizers were ubiquitous in raw sewage, unaffected by sewage treatment, not derivatives of bacteriochlorophyll or chlorophyll, absorbed well in UV light, and had a slight yellowish color; they are therefore believed to be humic substances. The ability of light to damage fecal coliforms was highly sensitive to, and completely dependent on, oxygen. Scavengers of H(2)O(2) and singlet oxygen could protect the bacteria from the effects of sunlight, but scavengers of hydroxyl radicals and superoxides could not. Light-mediated damage of fecal coliforms was highly sensitive to elevated pH values, which also enabled light with wavelengths of >425 nm (in the presence of the sensitizer) to damage the bacteria. We conclude that humic substances, pH, and dissolved oxygen are important variables in the process by which light damages microorganisms in this and other environments and that these variables should be considered in future research on, and models of, the effects of light.

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