Relevant studies on waterborne viral occurrence published in the past 2 years have been
analyzed showing that most of them were performed in surface waters and wastewater …

Since the beginning of environmental virology in the mid‐twentieth century, a key challenge
to scientists in the environmental field has been how to collect, isolate and detect pathogenic …

One of the major problems facing environmental health officials in regard to water quality is
related principally to the unavailability of reliable and standard methods to concentrate …

The use of ultrafiltration as a concentration method to recover viruses from environmental
waters was investigated. Two ultrafiltration systems (hollow fiber and tangential flow) in a …

• What are the research priorities with respect to viruses in drinking water? In an attempt to
answer these questions, we will review the available literature on the monitoring of viruses …

Domestic wastewater contains various pathogens, which, if not sufficiently eliminated, may
enter the receiving water bodies and cause water-transmitted diseases. Among the …

Various and divergent approaches that have been used to concentrate and assay viruses
from tap water and environmental freshwaters are summarized and briefly explained. The …

Some health important enteric viruses are considered to be emerging waterborne
pathogens and so the improvement of detection of these viruses in the aquatic environment …

According to the risk assessment of the WHO, highly infectious pathogenic viruses like
rotaviruses should not be present in large-volume drinking water samples of up to 90 m 3 …

This chapter discusses the occurrence of different virus types in wastewaters (sewage) and
their removal by various treatment processes. Factors that influence the occurrence and …