Etude des relations existant entre les virus détectables en culture cellulaire, les bactériophages ARN F spécifiques et les principaux indicateurs bactériens de contamination fécale présents dans des eaux usées brutes, épurées et dans des eaux de surface

Bacteriophages as indicators of enteric viruses and public health risk in groundwaters

“…Havelaar et al (1993), showed that the concentration of FRNA coliphages was highly correlated with viral concentrations in most freshwater environments studied. Recently, Vilaginès et al (1996Vilaginès et al ( , 1997 studied the occurrence and relationship among enteroviruses, F ¦ RNA phages and a variety of bacterial indicators in raw and treated wastewater, and in surface water collected from a receiving river. They found that FRNA phages were less resistant to wastewater treatment than enteric viruses (2·5 log 10 elimination rate for phages and 1·4 log 10 for viruses).…”