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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 384, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2022.109980
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Acinetobacter calcoaceticus; Biofilm; Disinfection; Inter-kingdom interactions; Penicillum brevicompactum; Penicillium expansum
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This study evaluates the association between bacteria and filamentous fungi in biofilm formation and tolerance to chlorination. The results showed that the association of bacteria and filamentous fungi favored biofilm production and reduced susceptibility to disinfection. The presence of filamentous fungi also increased the removal and inactivation effects of disinfectants.
Bacteria and filamentous fungi (ff) are commonly encountered in biofilms developed in drinking water (DW) distribution systems (DWDS). Despite their intimate ecological relationships, researchers tend to study bacteria and ff separately. This work assesses the impact of bacteria-ff association in biofilm formation and tolerance to chlorination. One strain of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus isolated from DW was used as a model bacterium. Peni-cillium brevicompactum and P. expansum isolated from DW were the ff selected. Single species and inter-kingdom adhesion and biofilm formation occurred under two shear stress (tau) conditions (0.05 and 1.6 Pa). The sessile structures were further characterized in terms of biomass production, respiratory activity and structure. The results showed that 1.6 Pa of shear stress and A. calcoaceticus-ff association favoured biofilm production. Inter -kingdom biofilms produced more biomass than A. calcoaceticus single species and reduced A. calcoaceticus sus-ceptibility to disinfection, particularly to high sodium hypochlorite (SHC) concentrations. In addition, P. brevicompactum formed single species biofilms highly resistant to removal and inactivation by SHC. The presence of P. brevicompactum or P. expansum in inter-kingdom biofilms significantly decreased SHC removal and inactivation effects in comparison to the bacterial biofilms alone, proposing that using bacteria to form biofilms representative of DWDS can provide inaccurate conclusions, particularly in terms of biofilm production and susceptibility to disinfection.
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