A5012758048- Fecal contamination and water quality
- Water Treatment and Disinfection
- Groundwater flow and contamination studies
- Gut microbiota and health
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Electrokinetic Soil Remediation Techniques
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- International Environmental Law and Policies
- Vibrio bacteria research studies
- Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
- Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
- Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
- Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
- Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
Universitat de Barcelona
2014-2024
The raw sewage that flows through systems contains a complex microbial community whose main source is the human gut microbiome, with bacteriophages being as abundant bacteria or even more so. Phages infect common strains of bacteriome and transient bacterial pathogens have been isolated in sewage, other phages corresponding to non-sewage inputs. Although do not seem replicate during their transit sewers, they predominate at entrance wastewater treatment plants, inside which dominant...
Bathing water quality may be negatively impacted by diffuse pollution arising from urban and agricultural activities wildlife, it is therefore important to able differentiate between biological geographical sources of faecal pollution. crAssphage was recently described as a novel human-associated microbial source tracking marker. This study aimed evaluate the performance marker in designated bathing waters. The sensitivity specificity crAss_2 evaluated using samples herring gulls, dogs,...
Aims Escherichia coli (EC) is the primary indicator micro-organism in regulations for sewage sludge reuse. The aim of this work was to assess ability EC enter and recover from a viable-but-not-culturable state (VBNC) after hygienization treatments. Methods Results persistence EC, somatic coliphages (SOMCPH), spores sulphite-reducing clostridia (SRC) Salmonella spp. assessed digested different pasteurization treatments storage conditions. Pasteurization at 55°C produced EC-injured cells that...
In the last decade coliphages have been included in many water quality regulations as viral faecal indicators. However, standardised methods used to detect and quantify differ bacterial host strains, culture media techniques. this comparative study, 100 mL samples of mineral drinking water, river wastewater were analysed with International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard methods, United States-Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) based well commercial kits combining a...
The integration of somatic coliphage analysis into water quality regulations has driven the development more streamlined, easier, and faster detection methods. These include Bluephage method, initially designed for qualitative assessment coliphages in 100 mL samples. In present study this technique was adapted quantitative using most probable number enabling quantification samples within 6.5 h incubation. Early readings were optimised an algorithm developed from extensive dataset over 400...