Summarized by Masters of Longevity from Nature - Biotechnology.
Reports experiments testing biologically-activated carbon, pasteurization, and particle filtration as prebiotic or probiotic controls to shape building hot-water plumbing microbiomes and suppress pathogens.
Key Takeaways
- Biologically-activated carbon (BAC) reduced influent total organic carbon while increasing total and intact bacterial cell counts.
- Particle filtration after BAC removed both microbes and biomass-associated nutrients from the treated influent.
- In aged reactors, the BAC-based Probiotic condition showed the lowest relative abundance of Legionella compared with Control reactors.
