Nine-year study of the occurrence of culturable viruses in source water for two drinking water treatment plants and the influent and effluent of a wastewater treatment plant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (August 1994 through July 2003)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 1042-1050

  Sedmak, Gerald ^a   Bina, David ^a   MacDonald, Jeffrey ^b   Couillard, Lon ^c  

^a Virology Division   (United States)

^b Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District   (United States)

^c Linnwood Plant   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EFFLUENT TREATMENT; FILTERS (FOR FLUIDS); FLOCCULATION; POTABLE WATER; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

CULTURABLE VIRUSES; CULTURING A CONCENTRATE; SOURCE WATER; TREATMENT PLANTS;

VIRUSES;

DRINKING WATER;

DRINKING WATER; VIRUS;

ADENOVIRUS; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN; CELL STRAIN CACO 2; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFLUENT; ENTEROVIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; REOVIRUS; SEASONAL VARIATION; UNITED STATES; VIRUS CONCENTRATION; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS DETECTION; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER TREATMENT;

ADENOVIRIDAE; CACO-2 CELLS; CELL LINE; DRINKING; ENTEROVIRUS; FRESH WATER; HUMANS; REOVIRIDAE; SEASONS; SEWAGE; VIRUS CULTIVATION; VIRUSES; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER SUPPLY; WISCONSIN;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ENTEROVIRUS; ORTHOREOVIRUS; REOVIRUS SP.;

EID: 13544251410     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.2.1042-1050.2005     Document Type: Article

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