Foodborne illness resulting from the consumption of contaminated fresh produce is a
common phenomenon and has severe effects on human health together with severe …

Water, a frequent vehicle for the transmission of viruses, may permit their survival, but many
environmental factors will have an adverse effect on the viral population. Risk evaluation …

Bacteriophages are an attractive alternative to faecal indicator bacteria (FIB), particularly as
surrogates of enteric virus fate and transport, due to their closer morphological and …

An understanding of the transport and survival of microbial pathogens (pathogens hereafter)
in agricultural settings is needed to assess the risk of pathogen contamination to water and …

Human enteric pathogenic viruses can enter the environment through discharge of waste
materials from infected persons, and be transmitted back to susceptible persons to continue …

Temperature is considered as the major factor determining virus inactivation in the
environment. Food industries, therefore, widely apply temperature as virus inactivating …

This review quantitatively examines a number of published studies that evaluated survival
and inactivation of public-health-related microorganisms in groundwater. Information from …

In recent months, wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has been shown to be an
important tool for early detection of SARS-CoV-2 circulation in the population. In this study, a …

Salmonella is one of the leading causes of intestinal illness all over the world as well as the
etiological agent of more severe systemic diseases such as typhoid and paratyphoid fevers …

Groundwater has been a relatively safe water source and associated with a series of global
pressing issues. It can, however, be vulnerable to pathogen contamination and exhibit risks …