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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2020

A Somatic Coliphage Threshold Approach To Improve the Management of Activated Sludge Wastewater Treatment Plant Effluents in Resource-Limited Regions.

Luz Chacón, Kenia Barrantes, Carolina Santamaría-Ulloa, Melissa Solano, Liliana Reyes, Lizeth Taylor, Carmen Valiente, Erin M Symonds, Rosario Achí

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Luz ChacónHealth Sciences Research Institute (Instituto de Investigaciones en Salud [INISA]), Universidad de Costa Rica, Montes de Oca, Costa Rica luz.chacon@ucr.ac.cr kenia.barrantes@ucr.ac.cr.ORCID 0000-0003-2506-0619
Kenia BarrantesHealth Sciences Research Institute (Instituto de Investigaciones en Salud [INISA]), Universidad de Costa Rica, Montes de Oca, Costa Rica luz.chacon@ucr.ac.cr kenia.barrantes@ucr.ac.cr.ORCID 0000-0002-2673-9220
Carolina Santamaría-UlloaHealth Sciences Research Institute (Instituto de Investigaciones en Salud [INISA]), Universidad de Costa Rica, Montes de Oca, Costa Rica.ORCID 0000-0001-9323-7653
Melissa SolanoHealth Sciences Research Institute (Instituto de Investigaciones en Salud [INISA]), Universidad de Costa Rica, Montes de Oca, Costa Rica.
Liliana ReyesHealth Sciences Research Institute (Instituto de Investigaciones en Salud [INISA]), Universidad de Costa Rica, Montes de Oca, Costa Rica.
Lizeth TaylorCollege of Microbiology (Facultad de Microbiología), Universidad de Costa Rica, Montes de Oca, Costa Rica.
Carmen ValienteNational Water Laboratory (Laboratorio Nacional de Aguas), Costa Rican Institute of Aqueducts and Sewerage (Instituto Costarricense de Acueductos y Alcantarillados), Tres Ríos, Costa Rica.
Erin M SymondsCollege of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.
Rosario AchíHealth Sciences Research Institute (Instituto de Investigaciones en Salud [INISA]), Universidad de Costa Rica, Montes de Oca, Costa Rica.
Universidad de Costa Rica · CRInstituto Costarricense de Investigación y Enseñanza en Nutrición y Salud · CRUniversity of South Florida St. Petersburg · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Effective wastewater management is crucial to ensure the safety of water reuse projects and effluent discharge into surface waters. Multiple studies have demonstrated that municipal wastewater treatment with conventional activated sludge processes is inefficient for the removal of a wide spectrum of viruses in sewage. In this study, a well-accepted statistical approach was used to investigate the relationship between viral indicators and human enteric viruses during wastewater treatment in a resource-limited region. Influent and effluent samples from five urban wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in Costa Rica were analyzed for somatic coliphage and human enterovirus, hepatitis A virus, norovirus genotypes I and II, and rotavirus. All WWTPs provide primary treatment followed by conventional activated sludge treatment prior to discharge into surface waters that are indirectly used for agricultural irrigation. The results revealed a statistically significant relationship between the detection of at least one of the five human enteric viruses and somatic coliphage. Multiple logistic regression and receiver operating characteristic curve analysis identified a threshold of 3.0 × 10

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ColiphagesCosta RicaSewageWaste Disposal, FluidWastewaterSewageWastewateractivated sludgeenteric virusesfecal indicator bacteriasomatic coliphagethreshold valueswastewater treatment

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PMID32591380
PMCPMC7440787
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