Removal of phages and viral pathogens in a full-scale MBR: Implications for wastewater reuse and potable water

Water Research

Volumn 100, Issue , 2016, Pages 20-27

  Purnell, Sarah ^a   Ebdon, James ^a   Buck, Austen ^a   Tupper, Martyn ^b   Taylor, Huw ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^b THAMES WATER UTILITIES LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacteriophages; Health; Pathogenic virus; Removal efficacy; Wastewater reuse

Indexed keywords

HEALTH RISKS; INDICATORS (CHEMICAL); PATHOGENS; POTABLE WATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WATER RECYCLING; WATER SUPPLY;

COLIFORMS; INTESTINAL ENTEROCOCCI; KRUSKAL; NOROVIRUSES; PATHOGENIC VIRUS; RECYCLING PLANT; REMOVAL EFFICACY; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; THERMOTOLERANT; WASTEWATER REUSE;

BACTERIOPHAGES;

DRINKING WATER;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BACTERIOPHAGE; CHLORINATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DRINKING WATER; FECAL COLIFORM; HEALTH RISK; PATHOGEN; RECYCLING; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; SAMPLING; SEASONAL VARIATION; VIRAL DISEASE; VIRUS; WASTEWATER;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BACTERIOPHAGE; CHLORINATION; COLIPHAGE; F SPECIFIC RNA PHAGE; HEPATITIS A; HUMAN; INDICATOR ORGANISM; INTESTINAL ENTEROCOCCI; MEMBRANE REACTOR; NOROVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOMATIC COLIPHAGE; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; THERMOTOLERANT COLIFORM; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; WASTE WATER RECYCLING; WINTER; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; RECYCLING; WASTE WATER;

EAST LONDON; EASTERN CAPE; SOUTH AFRICA;

ADENOVIRIDAE; BACTEROIDES; NOROVIRUS;

BACTERIOPHAGES; COLIPHAGES; DRINKING WATER; HUMANS; RECYCLING; WASTE WATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84965176199     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2016.05.013     Document Type: Article

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