Two groups of bacteriophages that infect Escherichia coli, somatic and F-specific coliphages,
have been used in academia as both fecal and viral indicators for many years. Regulatory …

The objective of this review is to assess the current state of knowledge of pathogens, general
faecal indicators and human‐specific microbial source tracking markers in sewage. Most of …

A study of the presence of human viruses (adenoviruses, enteroviruses, and hepatitis A
viruses [HAVs]) in environmental and shellfish samples was carried out by applying DNA and …

Background The sepsis burden on acute care services in middle-income countries is a cause
for concern. We estimated incidence, prevalence, and mortality of sepsis in adult Brazilian …

… River water samples of 50 liters were collected in the Llobregat River, and viral particles
were concentrated by the adsorption-elution glass powder method of Schwartzbrod and Lucena …

Bacteriophages infecting certain strains of Bacteroides are amid the numerous procedures
proposed for tracking the source of faecal pollution. These bacteriophages fulfil reasonably …

This paper presents the current sewage sludge legislation in Europe and expected developments
regarding the coming directives on the application of the “End-of-waste” criteria and …

The inactivation of naturally occurring bacterial indicators and bacteriophages by thermal
treatment of a dewatered sludge and raw sewage was studied. The sludge was heated at 80C, …

Several microbes and chemicals have been considered as potential tracers to identify fecal
sources in the environment. However, to date, no one approach has been shown to …

PURPOSE: To evaluate the feasibility and safety of intratumoral injection of autologous dendritic
cells (DCs) transfected with an adenovirus encoding interleukin-12 genes (AFIL-12) for …