Conventional and advanced detection techniques of foodborne pathogens: A comprehensive review

MP Kabiraz, PR Majumdar, MMC Mahmud, S Bhowmik… - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
Foodborne pathogens are a major public health concern and have a significant economic
impact globally. From harvesting to consumption stages, food is generally contaminated by …

The novel SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: possible environmental transmission, detection, persistence and fate during wastewater and water treatment

S Mohapatra, NG Menon, G Mohapatra… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
The contagious SARS-CoV-2 virus, responsible for COVID-19 disease, has infected over 27
million people across the globe within a few months. While literature on SARS-CoV-2 …

Occurrence of various viruses and recent evidence of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater systems

W Ali, H Zhang, Z Wang, C Chang, A Javed… - Journal of hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Viruses are omnipresent and persistent in wastewater, which poses a risk to human health.
In this review, we summarise the different qualitative and quantitative methods for virus …

Occurrence of human enteric viruses in water sources and shellfish: A focus on Africa

NS Upfold, GA Luke, C Knox - Food and Environmental Virology, 2021 - Springer
Enteric viruses are a diverse group of human pathogens which are primarily transmitted by
the faecal–oral route and are a major cause of non-bacterial diarrhoeal disease in both …

Microbiological contamination of conventional and reclaimed irrigation water: Evaluation and management measures

M Rusiñol, A Hundesa, Y Cárdenas-Youngs… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
The wide diversity of irrigation water sources (ie, drinking water, groundwater, reservoir
water, river water) includes reclaimed water as a requested measure for increasing water …

Occurrence of hepatitis A virus in water matrices: a systematic review and meta-analysis

GR Takuissu, S Kenmoe, JT Ebogo-Belobo… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Hepatitis A is a common form of viral hepatitis. It is usually transmitted through the ingestion
of contaminated food and water. This systematic review was carried out to summarise the …

A probabilistic assessment of microbial infection risks due to occupational exposure to wastewater in a conventional activated sludge wastewater treatment plant

ID Amoah, S Kumari, F Bux - Science of The Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Exposure to pathogens during wastewater treatment could result in significant health risks.
In this paper, a probabilistic approach for assessing the risks of microbial infection for …

Bacteriophage removal efficiency as a validation and operational monitoring tool for virus reduction in wastewater reclamation

M Amarasiri, M Kitajima, TH Nguyen, S Okabe, D Sano - Water research, 2017 - Elsevier
The multiple-barrier concept is widely employed in international and domestic guidelines for
wastewater reclamation and reuse for microbiological risk management, in which a …

Quantitative risk assessment of norovirus and adenovirus for the use of reclaimed water to irrigate lettuce in Catalonia

E Gonzales-Gustavson, M Rusiñol, G Medema… - Water research, 2019 - Elsevier
Wastewater is an important resource in water-scarce regions of the world, and its use in
agriculture requires the guarantee of acceptable public health risks. The use of fecal …

Microbiology of hospital wastewater

R Kaur, B Yadav, RD Tyagi - Current developments in Biotechnology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The study of hospital wastewater (HWW) microbiology is important to understand the
pollution load, growth of particular pathogenic microbes, shift and drift in microbial …