Amy Pruden

Assessing the potential of biologically-activated carbon treatment, pasteurization, and particle filtration as pre/pro-biotic controls on premise plumbing microbiomes

The potential for “probiotic” and “prebiotic” controls for opportunistic pathogen growth in premise (i.e., building) plumbing has been hypothesized but not demonstrated in practice. Here, we employed convectively-mixed pipe reactors (CMPRs) to compare the effects of common buildi...