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Appl Microbiol. 1974 May; 27(5): 920–926.
doi: 10.1128/am.27.5.920-926.1974
PMCID: PMC380178
PMID: 4364463

Environmental Factors Influencing Isolation of Enteroviruses from Polluted Surface Waters

Theodore G. Metcalf,1 Craig Wallis, and Joseph L. Melnick
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Abstract

The influence of water quality upon the concentration of virus on location was assessed in field studies conducted in the Houston ship channel, Galveston Bay, and Houston waste treatment plants. Clarification of polluted surface waters was accomplished with minimal loss of virus. Virus from clarified sewage effluents and saline waters was then adsorbed and concentrated on textile and membrane filter surfaces. Direct measurements of virus from large volumes of polluted surface waters under existing field conditions were then made using the virus concentrator equipment.

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