Efficiency of a Spanish wastewater treatment plant for removal potentially pathogens: Characterization of bacteria and protozoa along water and sludge treatment lines

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 74, Issue , 2015, Pages 28-32

  Marin I ^a   Goni P ^a   Lasheras, A M ^b   Ormad, M P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b Navarra de Infraestructuras Locales SA ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Protozoa; Sewage sludge; Wastewater; WWTP

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; EFFLUENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FILTRATION; PROTOZOA; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; SEWAGE SLUDGE; WASHING; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; AUTOTHERMAL THERMOPHILIC AEROBIC DIGESTIONS; FECAL CONTAMINATION; GIARDIA DUODENALIS; SLUDGE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER PURIFICATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WWTP;

SLUDGE DIGESTION;

BACTERIUM; ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING; EFFLUENT; PATHOGEN; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; PROTOZOAN; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SLUDGE; URBAN AREA;

SPAIN;

ACANTHAMOEBA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 84921909208     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2014.09.027     Document Type: Article

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