The discovery that viruses may be the most abundant organisms in natural waters,
surpassing the number of bacteria by an order of magnitude, has inspired a resurgence of …

Enterically infecting viruses are ubiquitous agents, mostly inducing silent infections. Several
are however associated with significant diseases in man from diarrhoea and vomiting to …

Wastewater Microbiology focuses on microbial contaminants found in wastewater, methods
of detection for these contaminants, and methods of cleansing water of microbial …

To determine the extent to which influenza viruses jump between human and swine hosts,
we undertook a large-scale phylogenetic analysis of pandemic A/H1N1/09 (H1N1pdm09) …

A risk assessment approach was used to estimate the public health impacts from exposure
to human rotavirus in drinking and recreational waters. Rotavirus is the major cause of viral …

Human excreta contain plant nutrients and have the potential to be used as a fertiliser in
agriculture. Urine contributes the major proportion of the nutrients (N, P and K) in domestic …

In industrial countries, we take safe drinking water for granted. Due to an increase in world
population, the microbiological safety of drinking water is becoming a worldwide concern …

A reverse transcription-PCR method was developed to detect enterovirus (EV), hepatitis A
virus (HAV), and rotavirus (RV) RNAs in shellfish and sediment. The method was first tested …

Municipal sewage sludge is a complex mixture of organic and inorganic compounds of
biological and mineral origin that are removed from wastewater and sewage in sewage …

All warm blooded animals harbor enteric viruses which are excreted in fecal material and
can find their way into the aquatic environment. In addition fish, other lower animals and …