Standard and new faecal indicators and pathogens in sewage treatment plants, microbiological parameters for improving the control of reclaimed water

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 66, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2517-2523

  Rodriguez Manzano, J ^a   Alonso, J L ^b   Ferrus M A ^b   Moreno, Y ^b   Amoros I ^b   Calgua, B ^a   Hundesa, A ^a   Guerrero Latorre, L ^a   Carratala, A ^a   Rusinol M ^a   Girones, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Efficiency removal; Enteric pathogens; Faecal indicators; Sewage; Tertiary treatment; Treatment plant

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT MODELS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM SPP; ENTRY POINT; FAECAL INDICATORS; GIARDIA; HUMAN ADENOVIRUS; INFECTIVITY ASSAY; MICRO-BIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RAW SEWAGE; RE-CLAIMED WATER; REDUCTION RATIOS; SAMPLING POINTS; SEWAGE TREATMENT PROCESS; TERTIARY EFFLUENT; TERTIARY TREATMENT; TERTIARY TREATMENT EFFLUENT; TREATMENT PLANTS;

EFFLUENT TREATMENT; PATHOGENS; PROTOZOA; RECLAMATION; SEWAGE; SEWAGE BACTERIOLOGY; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS; VIRUSES; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER TREATMENT;

EFFLUENTS;

WATER;

BACTERIUM; BIOINDICATOR; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; PROTOZOAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT; STANDARD (REGULATION); VIRUS;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; ARCOBACTER; ARTICLE; CHLORINATION; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC ORGANISM; FECAL COLIFORM; GIARDIA; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN ADENOVIRUS; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICROBIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; POLYOMA VIRUS; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALMONELLA; SANITATION; SEDIMENTATION; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

ADENOVIRIDAE; BACTERIA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; FECES; GIARDIA; HUMANS; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SEWAGE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER PURIFICATION;

ARCOBACTER; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; GIARDIA; HUMAN ADENOVIRUS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 84870883426     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2012.233     Document Type: Article

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