胡轻型斑点病毒作为微生物源追踪的有效工具,用于缺陷的家庭现场水处理系统
Alejandro Javier Criado Monleon1, Laurence W Gill1
1Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland.
The Science of the total environment
|May 19, 2024
概括
胡轻型病毒 (PMMoV) 有效地追踪农村地区现场系统的人类废水污染. 这项研究证明了PMMoVV.
科学领域:
- 环境微生物学环境微生物学
- 评估水质水质的评估.
- 污水处理 污水处理 污水处理
背景情况:
- 现场废水处理系统 (OWTS) 在农村水域造成了严重的污染.
- 由于系统设计和分散的位置,评估OWTS的影响具有挑战性.
- 传统的水检测方法可能会被分散的农业污染所混.
研究的目的:
- 评估胡温和病毒 (PMMoV) 作为缺陷OWTS的人类源追踪器.
- 评估PMMoV在土壤环境中的运输和移除.
- 验证PMMoV作为复杂农村水域的可靠指标.
主要方法:
- 研究了PMMoV在30厘米的土壤柱中的运输,剂量与污泥系统有影响.
- 在土壤柱中进行5天的播种试验期间,量化了PMMoV的去除.
- 在一个可操作的透沟中进行了实地规模的试验,在各种深度和距离采样.
- 对PMMoV,细菌和化学参数分析了农村流域的河水样本.
主要成果:
- 在整个土壤柱和操作透沟中检测到PMMoV.
- 在第二天,在沟后面观察到PMMoV度高峰1×10^6.
- 在24小时内,PMMoV在所有河流样本中都被始终检测到.
- 尽管存在多个扩散污染源,但PMMoV的存在表明人类的废水废水.
结论:
- 胡温和病毒 (PMMoV) 是一种合适的微生物源追踪工具,用于识别来自OWTS的人类废水.
- PMMoV在土壤和地表水环境中展示了有效的运输和检测.
- 这种方法为在农村地区与混合污染源的OWTS污染的跟踪提供了更好的特异性.
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