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ReviewWater research2017

How much reduction of virus is needed for recycled water: A continuous changing need for assessment?

Charles P Gerba, Walter Q Betancourt, Masaaki Kitajima

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In one paragraph

Review in Water research, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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45citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

45 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  3. The potential of long-term wastewater-based surveillance to predict COVID-19 waves peak in Mexico.Water environment research : a research publication of the Water Environment Federation · 2025
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  7. Diurnal changes in pathogenic and indicator virus concentrations in wastewater.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2023
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  18. Make it clean, make it safe: A review on virus elimination via adsorption.Chemical engineering journal (Lausanne, Switzerland : 1996) · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Charles P GerbaThe Water, Energy and Sustainable Technology Center, Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States. Electronic address: gerba@ag.arizona.edu.
Walter Q BetancourtThe Water, Energy and Sustainable Technology Center, Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States. Electronic address: wbetancourt@email.arizona.edu.
Masaaki KitajimaDivision of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. Electronic address: mkitajima@eng.hokudai.ac.jp.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To ensure the safety of wastewater reuse for irrigation of food crops and drinking water pathogenic viruses must be reduced to levels that pose no significant risk. To achieve this goal minimum reduction of viruses by treatment trains have been suggested. For use of edible crops a 6-log reduction and for production of potable drinking water a 12-log reduction has been suggested. These reductions were based on assuming infective virus concentrations of 10

Indexed as

RecyclingVirusesWaterWastewaterWater PurificationWater SupplyWastewaterWaterRecycleReductionReuseVirusesWastewater

Identifiers

PMID27838026
PMCPMC7112101

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