Assessment of human virus removal during municipal wastewater treatment in Edmonton, Canada

Journal of Applied Microbiology

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1729-1739

  Qiu, Y ^a   Lee, B E ^b   Neumann, N ^a,c   Ashbolt, N ^a   Craik, S ^d   Maal Bared, R ^d   Pang, X L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c PROVINCIAL LABORATORY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH   (Canada)

^d EPCOR Water Services   (Canada)

Author keywords

Integrated cell culture qPCR; Real time quantitative PCR; Virus removal; Viruses; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; EFFLUENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEALTH RISKS; MICROFILTRATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUSES; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WATER FILTRATION; WATER QUALITY;

HUMAN VIRUS; INFECTIOUS VIRUS; INTEGRATED CELL-CULTURE/QUANTITATIVE PCR; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; NOROVIRUSES; QUANTITATIVE PCR; REAL-TIME QUANTITATIVE PCR; ROTAVIRUSES; VIRUS REMOVAL;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

BACTERIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INFECTIVITY; MEMBRANE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ULTRAFILTRATION; VIRUS; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROVIRIDAE; CANADA; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROVIRUS; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ESCHERICHIA COLI; JC VIRUS; MEMBRANE FILTER; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; PREVALENCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROTAVIRUS; SAPOVIRUS; VIRUS CONCENTRATION; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS LOAD; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; ALBERTA; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION; WASTE WATER; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ALBERTA; CANADA;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ANIMALIA; ASTROVIRIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROVIRUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; JC POLYOMAVIRUS; NOROVIRUS; ORTHOREOVIRUS; ROTAVIRUS; SAPOVIRUS;

WASTE WATER;

ALBERTA; HUMANS; VIRUS DISEASES; VIRUSES; WASTE WATER; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84954555048     PISSN: 13645072     EISSN: 13652672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jam.12971     Document Type: Article

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