Evaluation of virological quality of sewage from four biological treatment plants by a nested-PCR technique

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 253-257

  Komninou, G ^a   Vantarakis, A ^a   Venieri, D ^a   Papapetropoulou, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adenoviruses; Enterviruses; Nested PCR; Sewage

Indexed keywords

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEWAGE; VIRUSES; WATER POLLUTION; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

ADENOVIRUSES; VIROLOGICAL QUALITY;

WATER QUALITY;

DETECTION METHOD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEWAGE; VIRUS; WATER TREATMENT;

ADENOVIRUS; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROVIRUS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GREECE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUALITY CONTROL; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; TIME; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING;

ENTEROVIRUS;

EID: 4344599407     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2004.0063     Document Type: Article

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