A5082242782- Fecal contamination and water quality
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
- Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
- Groundwater flow and contamination studies
- SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
- Water Treatment and Disinfection
- Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production
- Gut microbiota and health
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Electrokinetic Soil Remediation Techniques
- Vibrio bacteria research studies
- Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
- Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications
- Entomological Studies and Ecology
- International Environmental Law and Policies
- Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Membrane Separation Technologies
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...
Conventional bacterial indicators present serious drawbacks giving information about viral pathogens persistence during sludge hygienization treatments. This calls for the search of alternative indicators. Somatic coliphages’ (SOMCPH) ability acting as surrogates enteroviruses was assessed in 47 samples subjected to novel treatment processes. SOMCPH, infectious and genome copies were monitored. Only one these groups, bacteriophages, at concentrations that allowed evaluation treatment's...
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...