Virus inactivation in stored human urine, sludge and animal manure under typical conditions of storage or mesophilic anaerobic digestion.

ABSTRACT: Viruses represent major disease transmitting agents carried by human excreta and animal manure. Understanding virus inactivation is therefore essential in preventing microbial spread due to inadequate treatment of these materials. Here, we investigated the inactivation kinetics of the single-stranded (ss) RNA phage MS2, DNA phages T4 and ΦX174, andthe double-stranded DNA human adenovirus in stored human urine, sludge, and animal manure, at temperatures and pH valuestypical of storage under naturally occurring conditions or mesophilic anaerobic digestion (<40 °C). The ssRNA phage MS2 was most readily inactivated in all samples compared to the other viruses tested. This is consistent with previous findings in wellcontrolled buffer solutions of similar composition, where inactivation was foun

SUBMITTER: Decrey L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7705124 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature