The survival of pathogens in soil treated with wastewater sludge and in potatoes grown in such soil

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 163-168

  Chale Matsau, J R B ^a   Snyman, H G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b GOLDER ASSOCIATES LTD   (Canada)

Author keywords

E. coli; Pathogen; Risk; Salmonella; Wastewater sludge

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROORGANISMS; SEWAGE SLUDGE; SOIL POLLUTION; SOILS;

PATHOGENS; SALMONELLA; SLUDGE-AMENDED SOIL; WASTEWATER SLUDGE;

WASTEWATER;

CONTAMINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROORGANISMS; SEWAGE SLUDGE; SOIL POLLUTION; SOILS; WASTEWATER;

MICROORGANISM; PATHOGEN; RISK FACTOR; SLUDGE; SOIL POLLUTION; SURVIVAL; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP PRODUCTION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROPATHY; ERWINIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HARVEST PERIOD; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION RISK; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PANTOEA; PANTOEA AGGLOMERANS; PECTOBACTERIUM; PLANT GROWTH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POTATO; PREVALENCE; SALMONELLA; SLUDGE; SLUDGE TREATMENT; SOIL AMENDMENT; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; WASTE WATER;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERTILIZERS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; METALS, HEAVY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEWAGE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BUTTIAUXELLA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ERWINIA; PANTOEA; PANTOEA AGGLOMERANS; PECTOBACTERIUM; SALMONELLA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 33751088524     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2006.559     Document Type: Article

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