Relative abundance and treatment reduction of viruses during wastewater treatment processes—identification of potential viral indicators

M Kitajima, BC Iker, IL Pepper, CP Gerba - Science of the Total …, 2014 - Elsevier
Waterborne pathogenic viruses discharged from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) pose
potential public health risks. In the present study, we investigated the relative abundance …

Assessment of human virus removal during municipal wastewater treatment in Edmonton, Canada

Y Qiu, BE Lee, N Neumann, N Ashbolt… - Journal of Applied …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Aims To assess the removal of viruses through the multiple steps of wastewater treatment in
a full‐scale municipal wastewater treatment plant in Alberta, Canada. Methods and Results …

Applicability of crAssphage, pepper mild mottle virus, and tobacco mosaic virus as indicators of reduction of enteric viruses during wastewater treatment

S Tandukar, SP Sherchan, E Haramoto - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
This study was conducted to evaluate the applicability of crAssphage, pepper mild mottle
virus (PMMoV), and tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) as indicators of the reduction of human …

Droplet digital PCR quantification of norovirus and adenovirus in decentralized wastewater and graywater collections: Implications for onsite reuse

MA Jahne, NE Brinkman, SP Keely, BD Zimmerman… - Water research, 2020 - Elsevier
Risk-based treatment of onsite wastewaters for decentralized reuse requires information on
the occurrence and density of pathogens in source waters, which differ from municipal …

Reducing uncertainty in estimating virus reduction by advanced water treatment processes

CP Gerba, WQ Betancourt, M Kitajima, CM Rock - Water research, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Treatment of wastewater for potable reuse requires the reduction of enteric viruses
to levels that pose no significant risk to human health. Advanced water treatment trains (eg …

Release of infectious human enteric viruses by full-scale wastewater utilities

FJ Simmons, I Xagoraraki - Water Research, 2011 - Elsevier
In the United States, infectious human enteric viruses are introduced daily into the
environment through the discharge of treated water and the digested sludge (biosolids). In …

Variations among viruses in influent water and effluent water at a wastewater plant over one year as assessed by quantitative PCR and metagenomics

H Wang, J Neyvaldt, L Enache, P Sikora… - Applied and …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Influent wastewater and effluent wastewater at the Rya treatment plant in Gothenburg,
Sweden, were continuously monitored for enteric viruses by quantitative PCR (qPCR) during …

Virus reduction during advanced bardenpho and conventional wastewater treatment processes

BW Schmitz, M Kitajima, ME Campillo… - … science & technology, 2016 - ACS Publications
The present study investigated wastewater treatment for the removal of 11 different virus
types (pepper mild mottle virus; Aichi virus; genogroup I, II, and IV noroviruses; enterovirus; …

[HTML][HTML] Viruses in wastewater: occurrence, abundance and detection methods

MVA Corpuz, A Buonerba, G Vigliotta, T Zarra… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents an updated and comprehensive review on the different methods used
for detection and quantification of viruses in wastewater treatment systems. The analysis of …

Determination of virus abundance, diversity and distribution in a municipal wastewater treatment plant

Q Wu, WT Liu - Water research, 2009 - Elsevier
Procedures to extract and count sludge viruses-like particles from municipal sewage
treatment plant were optimized by epifluorescence microscopy using SYBR Green I as a …