Fate of coliphage in waste water treatment process and detection of phages carrying the Shiga toxin type 2 gene

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 11-12, 2002, Pages 285-289

  Tanji, Y ^a   Mizoguchi, K ^a   Akitsu, T ^a   Morita, M ^a   Hori, K ^a   Unno, H ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Activated sludge; Escherichia coli O157:H7; PCR; Phage; Shiga toxin

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PH EFFECTS; SEWAGE TREATMENT; TOXIC MATERIALS;

CHEMICAL AGGLUTINATION;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

VEROTOXIN 2;

MICROORGANISM; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AGGLUTINATION TEST; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COLIPHAGE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONFERENCE PAPER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPERIMENTATION; JAPAN; LIQUID; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEWAGE; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SLUDGE; SLUDGE SETTLING; TANK; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0036946664     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2002.0751     Document Type: Conference Paper

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