Virus Removal from Real Wastewater as an Environmental Management Approach
João Gomes, Eva Domingues, Danilo Frasson, Rui C. Martins, Ana Miguel Matos · 2024
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Description
João Gomes and four co-authors turn an invasive clam into a water-cleaning ally. The clam Corbicula fluminea filters large volumes of water and shrugs off pollution that kills other species. The team exposed the clams to real wastewater entering and leaving a municipal treatment plant, then tracked three viruses of concern. After 72 hours the clams had cleared norovirus of both main types from the water.
A third virus, JC virus, dropped only slightly under the same treatment. Tests with a harmless stand-in virus checked whether genetic traces meant live, infectious virus. The infectivity results matched the genetic signal, which supports gene testing as a fair guide to risk. Yet the tests also showed a catch: even when gene traces vanished, a few live viruses could remain and still infect cells. The authors present the clam as a promising extra treatment step.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | João Gomes, Eva Domingues, Danilo Frasson, Rui C. Martins, Ana Miguel Matos |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |