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Ma Z, Dwivedi AK, Clack HL. Effects of chemically-reductive trace gas contaminants on non-thermal plasma inactivation of an airborne virus. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 939:173447. [PMID: 38788942 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2024] [Revised: 05/07/2024] [Accepted: 05/20/2024] [Indexed: 05/26/2024]
Abstract
Transmission of airborne infectious diseases poses great risk for public health and socio-economic stability, thus, there is a need for an effective control method targeting the spread and transmission of pathogenic aerosols. The existence of chemically-reductive trace air contaminants in animal agriculture may affect the oxidation inactivation process of pathogens. In this study, we report how the presence of such gasses impacts the effectiveness of using non-thermal plasma (NTP) within a packed-bed dielectric barrier discharge reactor to inactivate MS2 bacteriophage. Inactivation of the aerosolized bacteriophage is determined by the combination of viability and polymerase chain reaction assays. Using a plasma power source with a voltage of 20 kV and frequency of 350 Hz, after differentiating and excluding the physical removal effects of viral aerosols potentially caused by plasma, the baseline inactivation of MS2 aerosol in air has been determined based on an overall air flow rate of 200 Liters per minute and plasma discharge power of 1.8 W. When either ammonia or hydrogen sulfide gas is introduced into the airstream at a concentration of 1 part per million, the NTP virus inactivation efficiency is reduced to around 0.5-log from the 1-log baseline inactivation in air alone. Higher concentrations of those gasses will not further inhibit the effectiveness of plasma inactivation.
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- Zhenyu Ma
- Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States.
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- Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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Park H, Shin GW, Lee SM, Jeong GW, Kim HY, Kim H, Choi HW, Lee-Kwon W, Kwon HM. One-hit kill: On the inactivation of RNA viruses by ultraviolet (UV)-C-induced genomic damage. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY. B, BIOLOGY 2024; 257:112949. [PMID: 38865816 DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2024.112949] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2024] [Revised: 05/19/2024] [Accepted: 05/27/2024] [Indexed: 06/14/2024]
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Large scale outbreaks of infectious respiratory disease have repeatedly plagued the globe over the last 100 years. The scope and strength of the outbreaks are getting worse as pathogenic RNA viruses are rapidly evolving and highly evasive to vaccines and anti-viral drugs. Germicidal UV-C is considered as a robust agent to disinfect RNA viruses regardless of their evolution. While genomic damage by UV-C has been known to be associated with viral inactivation, the precise relationship between the damage and inactivation remains unsettled as genomic damage has been analyzed in small areas, typically under 0.5 kb. In this study, we assessed genomic damage by the reduced efficiency of reverse transcription of regions of up to 7.2 kb. Our data seem to indicate that genomic damage was directly proportional to the size of the genome, and a single hit of damage was sufficient for inactivation of RNA viruses. The high efficacy of UV-C is already effectively adopted to inactivate airborne RNA viruses.
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- Hyun Park
- Department of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology Ulsan, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology Ulsan, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology Ulsan, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology Ulsan, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology Ulsan, Republic of Korea
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- Biomedical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology Ulsan, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology Ulsan, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology Ulsan, Republic of Korea.
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Falcó I, Randazzo W, Sánchez G. Antiviral Activity of Natural Compounds for Food Safety. FOOD AND ENVIRONMENTAL VIROLOGY 2024:10.1007/s12560-024-09605-3. [PMID: 38884930 DOI: 10.1007/s12560-024-09605-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2024] [Accepted: 05/16/2024] [Indexed: 06/18/2024]
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Gastroenteritis and hepatitis are the most common illnesses resulting from the consumption of food contaminated with human enteric viruses. Several natural compounds have demonstrated antiviral activity against human enteric viruses, such as human norovirus and hepatitis A virus, while little information is available for hepatitis E virus. Many in-vitro studies have evaluated the efficacy of different natural compounds against human enteric viruses or their surrogates. However, only few studies have investigated their antiviral activity in food applications. Among them, green tea extract, grape seed extract and carrageenans have been extensively investigated as antiviral natural compounds to improve food safety. Indeed, these extracts have been studied as sanitizers on food-contact surfaces, in produce washing solutions, as active fractions in antiviral food-packaging materials, and in edible coatings. The most innovative applications of these antiviral natural extracts include the development of coatings to extend the shelf life of berries or their combination with established food technologies for improved processes. This review summarizes existing knowledge in the underexplored field of natural compounds for enhancing the safety of viral-contaminated foods and underscores the research needs to be covered in the near future.
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- Irene Falcó
- VISAFELab, Department of Preservation and Food Safety Technologies, IATA-CSIC, Valencia, Spain.
- Department of Microbiology and Ecology, University of Valencia, C/Doctor Moliner, 50, 46100, Burjassot, Valencia, Spain.
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- VISAFELab, Department of Preservation and Food Safety Technologies, IATA-CSIC, Valencia, Spain
- Universidad Internacional de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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- VISAFELab, Department of Preservation and Food Safety Technologies, IATA-CSIC, Valencia, Spain
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Wales SQ, Pandiscia A, Kulka M, Sanchez G, Randazzo W. Challenges for estimating human norovirus infectivity by viability RT-qPCR as compared to replication in human intestinal enteroids. Int J Food Microbiol 2024; 411:110507. [PMID: 38043474 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2023.110507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2023] [Revised: 11/17/2023] [Accepted: 11/20/2023] [Indexed: 12/05/2023]
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Viability RT-qPCR, a molecular detection method combining viability marker pre-treatment with RT-qPCR, has been proposed to infer infectivity of viruses which is particularly relevant for non-culturable viruses or sophisticated cell culture systems. Being human noroviruses (HuNoV) most frequently associated with foodborne outbreaks, this study compared different viability techniques and infectivity in human intestinal enteroids (HIE) to ultimately determine whether the molecular approaches could serve as rapid assays to predict HuNoV inactivation in high-risk food. To this end, the performance of three viability RT-qPCR assays with different intercalating markers ((Viability PCR Crosslinker Kit (CL), propidium monoazide (PMAxx™), and platinum chloride (PtCl4)) in estimating survival of HuNoV exposed to thermal and high pressure (HPP) treatments was compared to replication tested in the HIE cell culture model. A nearly full-length genomic molecular assay coupled with PMAxx™ to infer HuNoV thermal inactivation was also assessed. The experimental design included HuNoV genogroup I.3 [P13], GII.4 Sydney [P16], GII.6 [P7], along with Tulane virus (TV) serving as surrogate. Finally, viability RT-qPCR was tested in HPP-treated strawberry puree, selected as a food matrix with high viral contamination risk. PMAxx™ and CL performed evenly, while PtCl4 affected HuNoV infectivity. Taking all experimental data together, viability RT-qPCR was demonstrated to be an improved method over direct RT-qPCR to estimate viral inactivation at extreme thermal (95 °C) and HPP (450 MPa) exposures, but not under milder conditions as amplification signals were detected. Despite its complexity and limitations, the HIE demonstrated a more robust model than viability RT-qPCR to assess HuNoV infectivity.
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- Samantha Q Wales
- Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, Laurel, MD, United States
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- Department of Preservation and Food Safety Technologies, Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology, IATA-CSIC, Avda. Catedrático Agustín Escardino 7, Valencia, Paterna 46980, Spain; Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari, Provincial Road to Casamassima Km 3, Bari, Valenzano 70010, Italy
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- Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, Laurel, MD, United States
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- Department of Preservation and Food Safety Technologies, Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology, IATA-CSIC, Avda. Catedrático Agustín Escardino 7, Valencia, Paterna 46980, Spain
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- Department of Preservation and Food Safety Technologies, Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology, IATA-CSIC, Avda. Catedrático Agustín Escardino 7, Valencia, Paterna 46980, Spain.
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Bichet MC, Gardette M, Das Neves B, Challant J, Erbs A, Roman V, Robin M, La Carbona S, Gantzer C, Boudaud N, Bertrand I. A new understanding of somatic coliphages belonging to the Microviridae family in urban wastewater. WATER RESEARCH 2024; 249:120916. [PMID: 38043350 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2023.120916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2023] [Revised: 11/08/2023] [Accepted: 11/22/2023] [Indexed: 12/05/2023]
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Somatic coliphages (SC) and F-specific RNA coliphages (FRNAPH) have been included in regulations or guidelines by several developed countries as a way of monitoring water safety and the microbiological quality of shellfish harvesting waters. SC are highly diverse in their morphology, size and genome. The Microviridae family contains three genera of phages (Alphatrevirus, Gequatrovirus, and Sinsheimervirus), all having a capsid of similar morphology (icosahedral) and size (25-30 nm in diameter) to that of common pathogenic enteric viruses. Three PCR assays specific for each genus of Microviridae were designed to study these phages in raw and treated wastewater (WW) in order to gain knowledge about the diversity and prevalence of Microviridae among SC, as well as their inactivation and removal during WW treatments. Among the four wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) monitored here, two WWTPs applied disinfection by UV light as tertiary treatment. First, we noticed that Microviridae represented 10 to 30 % of infectious SC in both raw and treated WW. Microviridae appeared to behave in the same way as all SC during these WW treatments. As expected, the highest inactivation, at least 4 log10, was achieved for infectious Microviridae and SC in both WWTPs using UV disinfection. PCR assays showed that the highest removal of Microviridae reached about 4 log10, but the phage removal can vary greatly between WWTPs using similar treatments. This work forms the basis for a broader evaluation of Microviridae as a viral indicator of water treatment efficiency and WW reuse.
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- Marion C Bichet
- Food Safety Department, ACTALIA, Saint-Lô F-50000, France; Université de Lorraine, CNRS, LCPME, F-54000 Nancy, France
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- Food Safety Department, ACTALIA, Saint-Lô F-50000, France; Université de Lorraine, CNRS, LCPME, F-54000 Nancy, France
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- Université de Lorraine, CNRS, LCPME, F-54000 Nancy, France
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- Food Safety Department, ACTALIA, Saint-Lô F-50000, France; Université de Lorraine, CNRS, LCPME, F-54000 Nancy, France
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- Université de Lorraine, CNRS, LCPME, F-54000 Nancy, France
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- Food Safety Department, ACTALIA, Saint-Lô F-50000, France
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Luo H, Zhang S, Zhong L. Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation: A prediction model to estimate UV-C-induced infectivity loss in single-strand RNA viruses. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2024; 241:117704. [PMID: 37984783 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.117704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2023] [Revised: 11/13/2023] [Accepted: 11/14/2023] [Indexed: 11/22/2023]
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Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) disinfection technology is effective in inactivating microorganisms. However, its performance can vary against different microorganisms due to their diverse structural and genomic features. Thus, rapid predictions of UV (254 nm) inactivation kinetics are essential, particularly for highly infectious emerging pathogens, such as SARS-CoV-2, during the extemporary COVID-19 pandemic. In this study, aiming at single-strand RNA (ssRNA) viruses, an improved genomic model was introduced to predict the UV inactivation kinetics of viral genomes using genome sequence data. First, the overall virus infectivity loss in an aqueous matrix was estimated as the sum of damage to both the entire genome and the protein capsid. Then, the "UV rate constant ratio of aerosol and liquid" was used to convert the UV rate constant for viruses in a liquid-based matrix to an airborne state. The prediction model underwent both quantitative and qualitative validation using experimental data from this study and the literature. Finally, with the goal of mitigating potential airborne transmission of ssRNA viruses in indoor environments, this paper summarizes existing in-duct UVGI system designs and evaluates their germicidal performance. The prediction model may serve as a preliminary tool to assess the effectiveness of a UVGI system for emerging or unculturable viruses or to estimate the required UV dose when designing such a system.
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- Hao Luo
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, 9211-116 Street NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 1H9, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, 11227 Saskatchewan Drive, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2G2, Canada
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, 9211-116 Street NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 1H9, Canada.
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Hogard S, Pearce R, Gonzalez R, Yetka K, Bott C. Optimizing Ozone Disinfection in Water Reuse: Controlling Bromate Formation and Enhancing Trace Organic Contaminant Oxidation. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2023; 57:18499-18508. [PMID: 37467303 PMCID: PMC10690711 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.3c00802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2023] [Revised: 06/06/2023] [Accepted: 06/07/2023] [Indexed: 07/21/2023]
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The use of ozone/biofiltration advanced treatment has become more prevalent in recent years, with many utilities seeking an alternative to membrane/RO based treatment for water reuse. Ensuring efficient pathogen reduction while controlling disinfection byproducts and maximizing oxidation of trace organic contaminants remains a major barrier to implementing ozone in reuse applications. Navigating these challenges is imperative in order to allow for the more widespread application of ozonation. Here, we demonstrate the effectiveness of ozone for virus, coliform bacteria, and spore forming bacteria inactivation in unfiltered secondary effluent, all the while controlling the disinfection byproduct bromate. A greater than 6-log reduction of both male specific and somatic coliphages was seen at specific ozone doses as low as 0.75 O3:TOC. This study compared monochloramine and hydrogen peroxide as chemical bromate control measures in high bromide water (Br- = 0.35 ± 0.07 mg/L). On average, monochloramine and hydrogen peroxide resulted in an 80% and 36% decrease of bromate formation, respectively. Neither bromate control method had any appreciable impact on virus or coliform bacteria disinfection by ozone; however, the use of hydrogen peroxide would require a non-Ct disinfection framework. Maintaining ozone residual was shown to be critical for achieving disinfection of more resilient microorganisms, such as spore forming bacteria. While extremely effective at controlling bromate, monochloramine was shown to inhibit TrOC oxidation, whereas hydrogen peroxide enhanced TrOC oxidation.
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- Samantha Hogard
- Civil
and Environmental Engineering Department, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24060, United States
- Hampton
Roads Sanitation District, P.O. Box 5911, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23471, United States
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- Civil
and Environmental Engineering Department, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24060, United States
- Hampton
Roads Sanitation District, P.O. Box 5911, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23471, United States
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- Hampton
Roads Sanitation District, P.O. Box 5911, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23471, United States
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- Hampton
Roads Sanitation District, P.O. Box 5911, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23471, United States
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- Hampton
Roads Sanitation District, P.O. Box 5911, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23471, United States
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Vrablikova A, Fojtikova M, Hezova R, Simeckova P, Brezani V, Strakova N, Fraiberk M, Kotoucek J, Masek J, Psikal I. UV-C irradiation as an effective tool for sterilization of porcine chimeric VP1-PCV2bCap recombinant vaccine. Sci Rep 2023; 13:19337. [PMID: 37935819 PMCID: PMC10630496 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-46791-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2022] [Accepted: 11/05/2023] [Indexed: 11/09/2023] Open
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Ultraviolet irradiation is an effective method of virus and bacteria inactivation. The dose of UV-C light necessary for baculovirus inactivation by measurement of fluorescent GFP protein produced by baculovirus expression system after the irradiation of baculovirus culture in doses ranging from 3.5 to 42 J/m2 was determined. At a dose of 36.8 J/m2, only 0.5% of GFP-expressing cells were detected by flow cytometry and confocal microscopy. The stability of purified VP1-PCV2bCap protein produced by baculovirus expression system was analyzed after the irradiation at doses ranging from 3.5 to 19.3 J/m2. Up to the dose of 11 J/m2, no significant effect of UV-C light on the stability of VP1-PCV2bCap was detected. We observed a dose-dependent increase in VP1-PCV2bCap-specific immune response in BALB/c mice immunized by recombinant protein sterilized by irradiation in dose 11 J/m2 with no significant difference between vaccines sterilized by UV-C light and filtration. A substantial difference in the production of VP1-PCV2bCap specific IgG was observed in piglets immunized with VP1-PCV2bCap sterilized by UV-C in comparison with protein sterilized by filtration in combination with the inactivation of baculovirus by binary ethylenimine. UV-C irradiation represents an effective method for vaccine sterilization, where commonly used methods of sterilization are not possible.
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- Alena Vrablikova
- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Veterinary Research Institute, Hudcova 70, 621 00, Brno, Czech Republic.
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Veterinary Research Institute, Hudcova 70, 621 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Veterinary Research Institute, Hudcova 70, 621 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Veterinary Research Institute, Hudcova 70, 621 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Veterinary Research Institute, Hudcova 70, 621 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Veterinary Research Institute, Hudcova 70, 621 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Science, Charles University, Albertov 6, 128 00, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Veterinary Research Institute, Hudcova 70, 621 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Veterinary Research Institute, Hudcova 70, 621 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Veterinary Research Institute, Hudcova 70, 621 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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Harrison K, Snead D, Kilts A, Ammerman ML, Wigginton KR. The Protective Effect of Virus Capsids on RNA and DNA Virus Genomes in Wastewater. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2023; 57:13757-13766. [PMID: 37656816 PMCID: PMC10516120 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.3c03814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2023] [Revised: 08/08/2023] [Accepted: 08/21/2023] [Indexed: 09/03/2023]
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Virus concentrations measured in municipal wastewater help inform both the water treatment necessary to protect human health and wastewater-based epidemiology. Wastewater measurements are typically PCR-based, and interpreting gene copy concentrations requires an understanding of the form and stability of the nucleic acids. Here, we study the persistence of model virus genomes in wastewater, the protective effects provided by the virus capsids, and the relative decay rates of the genome and infectious viruses. In benchtop batch experiments in wastewater influent at 25 °C, extraviral (+)ssRNA and dsDNA amplicons degraded by 90% within 15-19 min and 1.6-1.9 h, respectively. When encapsidated, the T90 for MS2 (+)ssRNA increased by 424× and the T90 for T4 dsDNA increased by 52×. The (+)ssRNA decay rates were similar for a range of amplicon sizes. For our model phages MS2 and T4, the nucleic acid signal in untreated wastewater disappeared shortly after the viruses lost infectivity. Combined, these results suggest that most viral genome copies measured in wastewater are encapsidated, that measured concentrations are independent of assay amplicon sizes, and that the virus genome decay rates of nonenveloped (i.e., naked) viruses are similar to inactivation rates. These findings are valuable for the interpretation of wastewater virus measurements.
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- Katherine
R. Harrison
- Department of Civil &
Environmental Engineering, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Department of Civil &
Environmental Engineering, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Department of Civil &
Environmental Engineering, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Department of Civil &
Environmental Engineering, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Department of Civil &
Environmental Engineering, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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Rowan NJ. Current decontamination challenges and potentially complementary solutions to safeguard the vulnerable seafood industry from recalcitrant human norovirus in live shellfish: Quo Vadis? THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2023; 874:162380. [PMID: 36841407 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2023] [Revised: 02/16/2023] [Accepted: 02/17/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
Abstract
Safeguarding the seafood industry is important given its contribution to supporting our growing global population. However, shellfish are filter feeders that bioaccumulate microbial contaminants in their tissue from wastewater discharged into the same coastal growing environments leading to significant human disease outbreaks unless appropriately mitigated. Removal or inactivation of enteric viruses is very challenging particularly as human norovirus (hNoV) binds to specific histo-blood ligands in live oyster tissue that are consumed raw or lightly cooked. The regulatory framework that sets out use of clean seawater and UV disinfection is appropriate for bacterial decontamination at the post-harvest land-based depuration (cleaning) stage. However, additional non-thermal technologies are required to eliminate hNoV in live shellfish (particularly oysters) where published genomic studies report that low-pressure UV has limited effectiveness in inactivating hNoV. The use of the standard genomic detection method (ISO 15, 216-1:2017) is not appropriate for assessing the loss of infectious hNoV in treated live shellfish. The use of surrogate viral infectivity methods appear to offer some insight into the loss of hNoV infectiousness in live shellfish during decontamination. This paper reviews the use of existing and potentially other combinational treatment approaches to enhance the removal or inactivation of enteric viruses in live shellfish. The use of alternative and complementary novel diagnostic approaches to discern viable hNoV are discussed. The effectiveness and virological safety of new affordable hNoV intervention(s) require testing and validating at commercial shellfish production in conjunction with laboratory-based research. Appropriate risk management planning should encompass key stakeholders including local government and the wastewater industry. Gaining a mechanistic understanding of the relationship between hNoV response at molecular and structural levels in individually treated oysters as a unit will inform predictive modeling and appropriate treatment technologies. Global warming of coastal growing environments may introduce additional contaminant challenges (such as invasive species); thus, underscoring need to develop real-time ecosystem monitoring of growing environments to alert shellfish producers to appropriately mitigate these threats.
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- Neil J Rowan
- Centre for Sustainable Disinfection and Sterilization, Bioscience Research Institute, Technological University of the Shannon Midlands Midwest, Athlone Campus, Ireland.
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Yu M, Gao R, Lv X, Sui M, Li T. Inactivation of phage phiX174 by UV 254 and free chlorine: Structure impairment and function loss. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2023; 340:117962. [PMID: 37086557 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.117962] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2023] [Revised: 04/14/2023] [Accepted: 04/14/2023] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
Abstract
Disinfection is widely applied in water and wastewater treatment to inactivate viruses. However, the inactivation mechanism associated with viral structural alteration during disinfection is still not clear. In this work, inactivation of bacteriophage phiX174 by ultraviolet radiation (UV254) and free chlorine (FC), two most commonly used disinfection processes, was studied at the molecular level to investigate the relationship between phiX174 genome impairment and virus inactivation, and the correlation between protein impairment and function loss. Double-layer agar technique, quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR), real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR), and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry techniques (LC-MS/MS), together with structure impairment and function experiments were implemented to quantitatively analyze the inactivation and damage to genome and proteins of phiX174. Results showed that UV254 and FC could effectively inactivate phiX174 at the practical doses (UV254 dose of 30 mJ/cm2, and FC of 1-3 mg/L) used in water treatment plants, accompanied with the damage to viral genome and proteins. Specifically, a UV254 irradiation dose of 9.6 mJ/cm2, and FC at an initial concentration of 1 mg/L at 4 min could lead to a 4-log10 inactivation. Nevertheless, the combination of these two methods at selected doses played no significant synergistic disinfection effect. During UV254 disinfection, the proportion of phiX174 with damaged genome was similar with that of the inactivated phiX174. In addition, UV254 and FC could disrupt proteins of phiX174 such as H protein, thereby hindering the physiological function associated with these proteins. With these findings, it is suggested that UV254 and FC disinfection could hinder the injection of the viral genome into host cells, thus resulting in the inactivation of phiX174. This work provides a comprehensive study of the inactivation mechanism of phiX174, which can enhance the applicability of UV254 and FC in water treatment plants, and facilitate the design and optimization of disinfection technologies for virus control in drinking water and wastewater worldwide to ensure the biosafety.
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- Miao Yu
- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai, 200092, People's Republic of China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai, 200092, People's Republic of China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai, 200092, People's Republic of China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai, 200092, People's Republic of China; State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai, 200092, People's Republic of China; Shanghai Institute of Pollution Control and Ecological Security, Shanghai, 200092, People's Republic of China.
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai, 200092, People's Republic of China; State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai, 200092, People's Republic of China; Shanghai Institute of Pollution Control and Ecological Security, Shanghai, 200092, People's Republic of China.
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Kennedy L, Costantini VP, Huynh KA, Loeb SK, Jennings WC, Lowry S, Mattioli MC, Vinjé J, Boehm AB. Persistence of Human Norovirus (GII) in Surface Water: Decay Rate Constants and Inactivation Mechanisms. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2023; 57:3671-3679. [PMID: 36812385 PMCID: PMC9996820 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.2c09637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2022] [Revised: 02/08/2023] [Accepted: 02/10/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
Abstract
Human norovirus (HuNoV) is an important cause of acute gastroenteritis and can be transmitted by water exposures, but its persistence in water is not well understood. Loss of HuNoV infectivity in surface water was compared with persistence of intact HuNoV capsids and genome segments. Surface water from a freshwater creek was filter-sterilized, inoculated with HuNoV (GII.4) purified from stool, and incubated at 15 or 20 °C. We measured HuNoV infectivity via the human intestinal enteroid system and HuNoV persistence via reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction assays without (genome segment persistence) or with (intact viral capsid persistence) enzymatic pretreatment to digest naked RNA. For infectious HuNoV, results ranged from no significant decay to a decay rate constant ("k") of 2.2 day-1. In one creek water sample, genome damage was likely a dominant inactivation mechanism. In other samples from the same creek, loss of HuNoV infectivity could not be attributed to genome damage or capsid cleavage. The range in k and the difference in the inactivation mechanism observed in water from the same site could not be explained, but variable constituents in the environmental matrix could have contributed. Thus, a single k may be insufficient for modeling virus inactivation in surface waters.
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- Lauren
C. Kennedy
- Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Division
of Viral Diseases, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30329, United States
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- Division
of Viral Diseases, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30329, United States
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- Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
- Department
of Civil Engineering, McGill University, 817 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QB H3A
0C3, Canada
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- Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Division
of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30329, United States
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- Division
of Viral Diseases, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30329, United States
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- Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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Raymond P, Paul S, Guy RA. Impact of Capsid and Genomic Integrity Tests on Norovirus Extraction Recovery Rates. Foods 2023; 12:foods12040826. [PMID: 36832901 PMCID: PMC9957022 DOI: 10.3390/foods12040826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2023] [Revised: 02/08/2023] [Accepted: 02/10/2023] [Indexed: 02/17/2023] Open
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Human norovirus (HuNoV) is the leading pathogen responsible for food-borne illnesses. However, both infectious and non-infectious HuNoV can be detected by RT-qPCR. This study evaluated the efficiency of different capsid integrity treatments coupled with RT-qPCR or a long-range viral RNA (long RT-qPCR) detection to reduce the recovery rates of heat inactivated noroviruses and fragmented RNA. The three capsid treatments evaluated (RNase, the intercalating agent PMAxx and PtCl4) reduced the recovery of heat inactivated HuNoV and murine norovirus (MNV) spiked on lettuce, when combined with the ISO 15216-1:2017 extraction protocols. However, PtCl4 also reduced non-heat-treated noroviruses recovery as estimated by RT-qPCR. The PMAxx and RNase treatments had a similar effect on MNV only. The most efficient approaches, the RNase and PMAxx treatments, reduced the heat-inactivated HuNoV recovery rates estimated using RT-qPCR by 2 and >3 log, respectively. The long RT-qPCR detection approach also reduced the recovery rates of heat inactivated HuNoV and MNV by 1.0 and 0.5 log, respectively. Since the long-range viral RNA amplification could be applied to verify or confirm RT-qPCR results, it also provides some advantages by reducing the risk of false positive HuNoV results.
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- Philippe Raymond
- St-Hyacinthe Laboratory—Food Virology, Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), St-Hyacinthe, QC J2S 8E3, Canada
- Correspondence:
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- St-Hyacinthe Laboratory—Food Virology, Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), St-Hyacinthe, QC J2S 8E3, Canada
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- National Microbiology Laboratory, Division of Enteric Diseases, Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), Guelph, ON N1G 3W4, Canada
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Loeb SK, Jennings WC, Wigginton KR, Boehm AB. Sunlight Inactivation of Human Norovirus and Bacteriophage MS2 Using a Genome-Wide PCR-Based Approach and Enzyme Pretreatment. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2021; 55:8783-8792. [PMID: 34101449 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c01575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Human norovirus (hNoV) is an important etiology of gastrointestinal illness and can be transmitted via ingestion of contaminated water. Currently impractical to culture, hNoV detection is reliant on real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)-based methods. This approach cannot distinguish between infective and inactivated viruses because intact regions of the RNA genome can amplify even if the damage is present in other regions of the genome or because intact genetic material is not contained within an infectious virion. Herein, we employ a multiple long-amplicon RT-qPCR extrapolation approach to assay genome-wide damage and an enzymatic pretreatment to study the impact of simulated sunlight on the infectivity of hNoV in clear, sensitizer-free water. Using MS2 coliphage as an internal control, the genome-wide damage extrapolation approach, previously successfully applied for UV-254 inactivation, vastly overestimated sunlight inactivation, suggesting key differences in photoinactivation under different spectral conditions. hNoV genomic RNA was more susceptible to simulated sunlight degradation per base compared to MS2 genomic RNA, while enzymatic pretreatment indicated that hNoV experienced more capsid damage than MS2. This work provides practical and mechanistic insight into the endogenous sunlight inactivation of single-stranded RNA bacteriophage MS2, a widely used surrogate, and hNoV GII.4 Sydney, an important health-relevant virus, in clear sensitizer-free water.
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- Stephanie K Loeb
- Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
- Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Re-inventing the Nation's Urban Water Infrastructure (ReNUWIt), Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
- Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Re-inventing the Nation's Urban Water Infrastructure (ReNUWIt), Stanford, California 94305, United States
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Cheng S, Ge Y, Lee Y, Yang X. Prediction of Photolysis Kinetics of Viral Genomes under UV 254 Irradiation to Estimate Virus Infectivity Loss. WATER RESEARCH 2021; 198:117165. [PMID: 33962243 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2021.117165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2021] [Revised: 04/14/2021] [Accepted: 04/15/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
UV254 irradiation disinfection is a commonly used method to inactivate pathogenic viruses in water and wastewater treatment. Model prediction method can serve as a pre-screening tool to quickly estimate the effectiveness of UV254 irradiation on emerging or unculturable viruses. In this study, an improved prediction model was applied to estimate UV254 photolysis kinetics of viral genomes (kpred, genome) based on the genome sequences and their photoreactivity and to correlate with the experimental virus infectivity loss kinetics (kexp, infectivity). The UV254 inactivation data of 102 viruses (including 2 dsRNA, 65 ssRNA, 33 dsDNA and 2 ssDNA viruses) were collected from the published experimental data with kexp, infectivity ranging from 0.016 to 3.49 cm2 mJ-1. The model had fairly good performance in predicting the virus susceptibility to UV254 irradiation except dsRNA viruses (Pearson's correlation coefficient = 0.64) and 70% of kpred, genome fell in the range of 1/2 to 2 times of kexp, infectivity. The positive deviation of the model often occurred for photoresistant viruses with low kexp, infectivity less than 0.20 cm2 mJ-1 (e.g., Adenovirus, Papovaviridae and Retroviridae). We also applied this model to predict the UV254 inactivation rate of SARS-CoV-2 (kpred, genome = 3.168 cm2 mJ-1) and a UV dose of 3 mJ cm-2 seemed to be able to achieve a 2-log removal by conservative calculation using 1/2kpred, genome value. This prediction method can be used as a prescreening tool to assess the effectiveness of UV254 irradiation for emerging/unculturable viruses in water or wastewater treatment.
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- Shuangshuang Cheng
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
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- School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Gwangju 61005, Republic of Korea
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Control and Remediation Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China.
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Lee J, Bong C, Lim W, Bae PK, Abafogi AT, Baek SH, Shin YB, Bak MS, Park S. Fast and Easy Disinfection of Coronavirus-Contaminated Face Masks Using Ozone Gas Produced by a Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma Generator. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LETTERS 2021; 8:339-344. [PMID: 37566380 PMCID: PMC7931622 DOI: 10.1021/acs.estlett.1c00089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2021] [Revised: 02/17/2021] [Accepted: 02/17/2021] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
Abstract
During the COVID-19 pandemic, face masks have become limited in stock. Most of sterilization methods are not applicable for eliminating virus from face masks without compromising the filtration efficiency of the masks. In this study, using a human coronavirus (HCoV-229E) as a surrogate for SARS-CoV-2 contamination on KF94 face masks, we show that the virus loses its infectivity with a 4 log reduction when exposed for 10 s to 120 ppm ozone gas produced by a dielectric barrier discharge plasma generator. Scanning electron microscopy, particulate filtration efficiency (PFE), and inhalation resistance tests revealed that there was no detectable structural or functional deterioration observed in the electrocharged filter layer of Korea Filter (KF) 94 masks even after their excessive exposure to ozone. Reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) showed decreases in amplification efficiency of HCoV-229E RNA recovered from masks exposed to ozone, indicating the damage to the RNA by the ozone treatment. Our results demonstrate that the plasma generator rapidly disinfects contaminated face masks at least five times without compromising filtration efficiency.
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- Jinyeop Lee
- School of Mechanical Engineering,
Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419,
Korea
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- School of Mechanical Engineering,
Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419,
Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering,
Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419,
Korea
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- BioNano Health Guard Research Center
(H-GUARD), Daejeon 34141, Korea
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- School of Mechanical Engineering,
Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419,
Korea
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- BioNano Health Guard Research Center
(H-GUARD), Daejeon 34141, Korea
- Bionanotechnology Research Center, Korea
Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), Daejeon 34141,
Korea
- Department of Bioengineering, KRIBB
School, University of Science and Technology (UST), Daejeon 34141,
Korea
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- School of Mechanical Engineering,
Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419,
Korea
- Biomedical Institute for Convergence at SKKU (BICS),
Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419,
Korea
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- School of Mechanical Engineering,
Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419,
Korea
- Department of Biomedical Engineering,
Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419,
Korea
- Biomedical Institute for Convergence at SKKU (BICS),
Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419,
Korea
- Institute of Quantum Biophysics (iQB),
Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419,
Korea
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Castaño N, Cordts SC, Kurosu Jalil M, Zhang KS, Koppaka S, Bick AD, Paul R, Tang SKY. Fomite Transmission, Physicochemical Origin of Virus-Surface Interactions, and Disinfection Strategies for Enveloped Viruses with Applications to SARS-CoV-2. ACS OMEGA 2021; 6:6509-6527. [PMID: 33748563 PMCID: PMC7944398 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.0c06335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2020] [Accepted: 02/19/2021] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
Abstract
Inanimate objects or surfaces contaminated with infectious agents, referred to as fomites, play an important role in the spread of viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. The long persistence of viruses (hours to days) on surfaces calls for an urgent need for effective surface disinfection strategies to intercept virus transmission and the spread of diseases. Elucidating the physicochemical processes and surface science underlying the adsorption and transfer of virus between surfaces, as well as their inactivation, is important for understanding how diseases are transmitted and for developing effective intervention strategies. This review summarizes the current knowledge and underlying physicochemical processes of virus transmission, in particular via fomites, and common disinfection approaches. Gaps in knowledge and the areas in need of further research are also identified. The review focuses on SARS-CoV-2, but discussion of related viruses is included to provide a more comprehensive review given that much remains unknown about SARS-CoV-2. Our aim is that this review will provide a broad survey of the issues involved in fomite transmission and intervention to a wide range of readers to better enable them to take on the open research challenges.
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- Nicolas Castaño
- Department
of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department
of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department
of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department
of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department
of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department
of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department
of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department
of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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Torii S, Miura F, Itamochi M, Haga K, Katayama K, Katayama H. Impact of the Heterogeneity in Free Chlorine, UV 254, and Ozone Susceptibilities Among Coxsackievirus B5 on the Prediction of the Overall Inactivation Efficiency. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2021; 55:3156-3164. [PMID: 33583178 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c07796] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
The disinfection susceptibilities of viruses vary even among variants, yet the inactivation efficiency of a certain virus genotype, species, or genus was determined based on the susceptibility of its laboratory strain. The objectives were to evaluate the variability in susceptibilities to free chlorine, UV254, and ozone among 13 variants of coxsackievirus B5 (CVB5) and develop the model allowing for predicting the overall inactivation of heterogeneous CVB5. Our results showed that the susceptibilities differed by up to 3.4-fold, 1.3-fold, and 1.8-fold in free chlorine, UV254, and ozone, respectively. CVB5 in genogroup B exhibited significantly lower susceptibility to free chlorine and ozone than genogroup A, where the laboratory strain, Faulkner, belongs. The capsid protein in genogroup B contained a lower number of sulfur-containing amino acids, readily reactive to oxidants. We reformulated the Chick-Watson model by incorporating the probability distributions of inactivation rate constants to capture the heterogeneity. This expanded Chick-Watson model indicated that up to 4.2-fold larger free chlorine CT is required to achieve 6-log inactivation of CVB5 than the prediction by the Faulkner strain. Therefore, it is recommended to incorporate the variation in disinfection susceptibilities for predicting the overall inactivation of a certain type of viruses.
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- Shotaro Torii
- Department of Urban Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8654, Japan
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- Center for Marine Environmental Studies (CMES), Ehime University, Bunkyo-cho 3, Matsuyama-shi, Ehime 790-8577, Japan
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- Department of Virology, Toyama Institute of Health, 17-1 Nakataikoyama, Imizu-shi, Toyama 939-0363, Japan
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- Laboratory of Viral Infection I, Department of Infection Control and Immunology, O̅mura Satoshi Memorial Institute & Graduate School of Infection Control Sciences, Kitasato University, Tokyo 108-8641, Japan
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- Laboratory of Viral Infection I, Department of Infection Control and Immunology, O̅mura Satoshi Memorial Institute & Graduate School of Infection Control Sciences, Kitasato University, Tokyo 108-8641, Japan
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- Department of Urban Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8654, Japan
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Choi Y, He H, Dodd MC, Lee Y. Degradation Kinetics of Antibiotic Resistance Gene mecA of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) during Water Disinfection with Chlorine, Ozone, and Ultraviolet Light. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2021; 55:2541-2552. [PMID: 33499587 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c05274] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
Degradation kinetics of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) by free available chlorine (FAC), ozone (O3), and UV254 light (UV) were investigated in phosphate buffered solutions at pH 7 using a chromosomal ARG (mecA) of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). For FAC, the degradation rates of extracellular mecA (extra-mecA) were accelerated with increasing FAC exposure, which could be explained by a two-step FAC reaction model. The degradation of extra-mecA by O3 followed second-order reaction kinetics. The degradation of extra-mecA by UV exhibited tailing kinetics, which could be described by a newly proposed kinetic model considering cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer (CPD) formation, its photoreversal, and irreversible (6-4) photoproduct formation. Measured rate constants for extra-mecA increased linearly with amplicon length for FAC and O3, or with number of intrastrand pyrimidine doublets for UV, which enabled prediction of degradation rate constants of extra-mecA amplicons based on sequence length and/or composition. In comparison to those of extra-mecA, the observed degradation rates of intracellular mecA (intra-mecA) were faster for FAC and O3 at low oxidant exposures but significantly slower at high exposures for FAC and UV. Differences in observed extra- and intracellular kinetics could be due to decreased DNA recovery efficiency and/or the presence of MRSA aggregates protected from disinfectants.
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- Yegyun Choi
- School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington (UW), Seattle, Washington 98195-2700, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington (UW), Seattle, Washington 98195-2700, United States
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- School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea
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Mohan SV, Hemalatha M, Kopperi H, Ranjith I, Kumar AK. SARS-CoV-2 in environmental perspective: Occurrence, persistence, surveillance, inactivation and challenges. CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL (LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND : 1996) 2021; 405:126893. [PMID: 32901196 PMCID: PMC7471803 DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2020.126893] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2020] [Revised: 08/29/2020] [Accepted: 08/31/2020] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
Abstract
The unprecedented global spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) caused by SARS-CoV-2 is depicting the distressing pandemic consequence on human health, economy as well as ecosystem services. So far novel coronavirus (CoV) outbreaks were associated with SARS-CoV-2 (2019), middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV, 2012), and SARS-CoV-1 (2003) events. CoV relates to the enveloped family of Betacoronavirus (βCoV) with positive-sense single-stranded RNA (+ssRNA). Knowing well the persistence, transmission, and spread of SARS-CoV-2 through proximity, the faecal-oral route is now emerging as a major environmental concern to community transmission. The replication and persistence of CoV in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and shedding through stools is indicating a potential transmission route to the environment settings. Despite of the evidence, based on fewer reports on SARS-CoV-2 occurrence and persistence in wastewater/sewage/water, the transmission of the infective virus to the community is yet to be established. In this realm, this communication attempted to review the possible influx route of the enteric enveloped viral transmission in the environmental settings with reference to its occurrence, persistence, detection, and inactivation based on the published literature so far. The possibilities of airborne transmission through enteric virus-laden aerosols, environmental factors that may influence the viral transmission, and disinfection methods (conventional and emerging) as well as the inactivation mechanism with reference to the enveloped virus were reviewed. The need for wastewater epidemiology (WBE) studies for surveillance as well as for early warning signal was elaborated. This communication will provide a basis to understand the SARS-CoV-2 as well as other viruses in the context of the environmental engineering perspective to design effective strategies to counter the enteric virus transmission and also serves as a working paper for researchers, policy makers and regulators.
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Key Words
- (h+), Photoholes
- +ssRNA, Positive Sense Single-Stranded RNA
- A-WWTS, Algal-WWTS
- ACE2, Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2
- AH, Absolute Humidity
- AOPs, Advanced Oxidation Processes
- ASP, Activate Sludge Process
- Aerosols
- BCoV, Bovine Enteric Coronavirus)
- BSL, Biosafety Level
- BVDV1, Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus Type 1
- BVDV2, Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus Type 2
- BoRv, Bovine Rotavirus Group A
- CCA, Carbon Covered Alumina
- CNT, Carbon Nanotubes
- COVID-19
- COVID-19, Coronavirus Disease 2019
- CRFK, Crandell Reese feline kidney cell line (CRFK)
- CVE, Coxsackievirus B5
- ClO2, Chlorine dioxide
- Cl−, Chlorine
- Cys, Cysteine
- DBP, Disinfection by-products
- DBT, L2 and Delayed Brain Tumor Cell Cultures
- DMEM, Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle Medium
- DNA, deoxyribose nucleic acid
- Disinfection
- E gene, Envelope protein gene
- EV, Echovirus 11
- Enteric virus
- Enveloped virus
- FC, Free Chlorine
- FFP3, Filtering Face Piece
- FIPV, Feline infectious peritonitis virus
- GI, Gastrointestinal tract
- H2O2, Hydrogen Peroxide
- H3N2, InfluenzaA
- H6N2, Avian influenza virus
- HAV, Hepatitis A virus (HAV)
- HAdV, Human Adenovirus
- HCoV, Human CoV
- HEV, Hepatitis E virus
- HKU1, Human CoV1
- ICC-PCR, Integrated Cell Culture with PCR
- JCV, JCV polyomavirus
- MALDI-TOF MS, Mass Spectrometry
- MBR, Membrane Bioreactor (MBR)
- MERS-CoV, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus
- MHV, Murine hepatitis virus
- MNV-1, Murine Norovirus
- MWCNTs, Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes
- Met, Methionine
- N gene, Nucleocapsid protein gene
- NCoV, Novel coronavirus
- NGS, Next generation sequencing
- NTP, Non-Thermal Plasma
- O2, Singlet Oxygen
- O3, Ozone
- ORF, Open Reading Frame
- PAA, Para Acetic Acid
- PCR, Polymerase Chain Reaction
- PEC, Photoelectrocatalytical
- PEG, Polyethylene Glycol
- PFU, Plaque Forming Unit
- PMMoV, Pepper Mild Mottle Virus
- PMR, Photocatalytic Membrane Reactors
- PPE, Personal Protective Equipment
- PTAF, Photocatalytic Titanium Apatite Filter
- PV-1, Polivirus-1
- PV-3, Poliovirus 3
- PVDF, Polyvinylidene Fluoride
- Qβ, bacteriophages
- RH, Relative Humidity
- RNA, Ribose nucleic acid
- RONS, Reactive Oxygen and/or Nitrogen Species
- RT-PCR, Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
- RVA, Rotaviruses A
- SARS-CoV-1, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 1
- SARS-CoV-2, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2
- SBR, Sequential Batch Reactor
- SODIS, Solar water disinfection
- STP, Sewage Treatment Plant
- Sewage
- T90, First order reaction time required for completion of 90%
- T99.9, First order reaction time required for completion of 99.9%
- TGEV, Porcine Coronavirus Transmissible Gastroenteritis Virus
- TGEV, Transmissible Gastroenteritis
- Trp, Tryptophan
- Tyr, Tyrosine
- US-EPA, United States Environmental Protection Agency
- UV, Ultraviolet
- WBE, Wastewater-Based Epidemiology
- WWT, Wastewater Treatment
- WWTPs, Wastewater Treatment Plants
- dPCR, Digital PCR
- ds, Double Stranded
- dsDNA, Double Stranded DNA
- log10, logarithm with base 10
- qRT-PCR, quantitative RT-PCR
- ss, Single Stranded
- ssDNA, Single Stranded DNA
- ssRNA, Single Stranded RNA
- αCoV, Alphacoronavirus
- βCoV, Betacoronavirus
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Affiliation(s)
- S Venkata Mohan
- Bioengineering and Environmental Sciences Lab, Department of Energy and Environmental Engineering (DEEE), CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (CSIR-IICT), Hyderabad 500007, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (CSIR-IICT) Campus, Hyderabad 500007, India
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- Bioengineering and Environmental Sciences Lab, Department of Energy and Environmental Engineering (DEEE), CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (CSIR-IICT), Hyderabad 500007, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (CSIR-IICT) Campus, Hyderabad 500007, India
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- Bioengineering and Environmental Sciences Lab, Department of Energy and Environmental Engineering (DEEE), CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (CSIR-IICT), Hyderabad 500007, India
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- Bioengineering and Environmental Sciences Lab, Department of Energy and Environmental Engineering (DEEE), CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (CSIR-IICT), Hyderabad 500007, India
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- Bioengineering and Environmental Sciences Lab, Department of Energy and Environmental Engineering (DEEE), CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (CSIR-IICT), Hyderabad 500007, India
- CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (CSIR-IICT) Dispensary, Hyderabad 500007, India
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Sun Z, Fu J, Li X, Blatchley ER, Zhou Z. Using Algal Virus Paramecium bursaria Chlorella Virus as a Human Adenovirus Surrogate for Validation of UV Treatment Systems. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2020; 54:15507-15515. [PMID: 33166135 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c06354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Adenovirus is among the most UV-resistant waterborne human pathogens. There is a need to identify nonpathogenic surrogates for adenovirus for the water treatment industry. In this study, the feasibility of using the algal virus Paramecium bursaria chlorella virus (PBCV-1) as an adenovirus surrogate for validation of UV reactors was evaluated. The UV dose-response behavior of PBCV-1 to monochromatic UV radiation at 254 nm and action spectrum for wavelengths ranging from 214 to 289 nm were measured. A culture-based infectivity assay was used to evaluate viral inactivation, and a quantitative PCR assay was used to quantify DNA damage. A UV254 dose of 150 mJ/cm2 resulted in roughly 5-log10 units of reduction of PBCV-1, which is similar to that of adenovirus. Furthermore, the inactivation action spectrum of PBCV-1 was similar to that of adenovirus between 214 and 289 nm. A simplified and inexpensive prepurification method was also developed to prepare PBCV-1 viral suspensions with similar inactivation behavior to purified PBCV-1. Overall, PBCV-1 appears to represent an appropriate adenovirus surrogate for UV system performance evaluation and illustrates the potential of using algal viruses as nonpathogenic, easy to culture, and readily available surrogates for human pathogens.
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- Zhe Sun
- Lyles School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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- Lyles School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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- Lyles School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
- Division of Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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- Lyles School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
- Division of Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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Ahmed Y, Lu J, Yuan Z, Bond PL, Guo J. Efficient inactivation of antibiotic resistant bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes by photo-Fenton process under visible LED light and neutral pH. WATER RESEARCH 2020; 179:115878. [PMID: 32417561 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2020.115878] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2020] [Revised: 04/18/2020] [Accepted: 04/22/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Antibiotic resistance has been recognized as a major threat to public health worldwide. Inactivation of antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) and degradation of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) are critical to prevent the spread of antibiotic resistance in the environment. Conventional disinfection processes are effective to inactivate water-borne pathogens, yet they are unable to completely eliminate the antibiotic resistance risk. This study explored the potential of the photo-Fenton process to inactivate ARB, and to degrade both extracellular and intracellular ARGs (e-ARGs and i-ARGs, respectively). Using Escherichia coli DH5α with two plasmid-encoded ARGs (tetA and blaTEM-1) as a model ARB, a 6.17 log ARB removal was achieved within 30 min of applying photo-Fenton under visible LED and neutral pH conditions. In addition, no ARB regrowth occurred after 48-h, demonstrating that this process is very effective to induce permanent disinfection on ARB. The photo-Fenton process was validated under various water matrices, including ultrapure water (UPW), simulated wastewater (SWW) and phosphate buffer (PBS). The higher inactivation efficiency was observed in SWW as compared to other matrices. The photo-Fenton process also caused a 6.75 to 8.56-log reduction in eARGs based on quantitative real-time PCR of both short- and long amplicons. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) further confirmed that the extracellular DNA was sheared into short DNA fragments, thus eliminating the risk of the transmission of antibiotic resistance. As compared with e-ARGs, a higher dosage of Fenton reagent was required to damage i-ARGs. In addition, the tetA gene was more easily degraded than the blaTEM-1 gene. Collectively, our results demonstrate the photo-Fenton process is a promising technology for disinfecting water to prevent the spread of antibiotic resistance.
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- Yunus Ahmed
- Advanced Water Management Centre (AWMC), The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia; Department of Chemistry, Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology, Chittagong, 4349, Bangladesh
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- Advanced Water Management Centre (AWMC), The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia
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- Advanced Water Management Centre (AWMC), The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia
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- Advanced Water Management Centre (AWMC), The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia
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- Advanced Water Management Centre (AWMC), The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia.
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Rockey N, Young S, Kohn T, Pecson B, Wobus CE, Raskin L, Wigginton KR. UV Disinfection of Human Norovirus: Evaluating Infectivity Using a Genome-Wide PCR-Based Approach. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2020; 54:2851-2858. [PMID: 31976661 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.9b05747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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The removal and inactivation of infectious human norovirus (HuNoV) is a major focus in water purification, but the effectiveness of disinfection processes on norovirus is largely unknown owing to the lack of a readily available infectivity assay. In particular, norovirus behavior through unit processes may be over- or underestimated using current approaches for assessing HuNoV infectivity (e.g., surrogates, molecular methods). Here, we fill a critical knowledge gap by estimating inactivation data for HuNoV after exposure to UV254, a commonly used disinfection process in the water industry. Specifically, we used a PCR-based approach that accurately tracks positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus inactivation without relying on culturing methods. We first confirmed that the approach is valid with a culturable positive-sense single-stranded RNA human virus, coxsackievirus B5, by applying both qPCR- and culture-based methods to measure inactivation kinetics with UV254 treatment. We then applied the qPCR-based method to establish a UV254 inactivation curve for HuNoV (inactivation rate constant = 0.27 cm2 mJ-1). Based on a comparison with previously published data, HuNoV exhibited similar UV254 susceptibility compared with other enteric single-stranded RNA viruses (e.g., Echovirus 12, feline calicivirus) but degraded much faster than MS2 (inactivation rate constant = 0.14 cm2 mJ-1). In addition to establishing a HuNoV inactivation rate constant, we developed an approach using a single qPCR assay that can be applied to estimate HuNoV inactivation in UV254 disinfection systems.
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- Nicole Rockey
- Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109, Michigan, United States
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- Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry, School of Architecture, Civil & Environmental Engineering (ENAC), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne 1015, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry, School of Architecture, Civil & Environmental Engineering (ENAC), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne 1015, Switzerland
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- Trussell Technologies, Inc., Oakland 94612, California, United States
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- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109, Michigan, United States
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- Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109, Michigan, United States
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- Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109, Michigan, United States
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Young S, Torrey J, Bachmann V, Kohn T. Relationship Between Inactivation and Genome Damage of Human Enteroviruses Upon Treatment by UV 254, Free Chlorine, and Ozone. FOOD AND ENVIRONMENTAL VIROLOGY 2020; 12:20-27. [PMID: 31664651 DOI: 10.1007/s12560-019-09411-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2019] [Accepted: 10/12/2019] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Quantitative PCR (qPCR) is a convenient tool for monitoring virus concentrations in water and wastewater treatment trains, though it only informs about virus presence, but not infectivity. This limitation can be overcome if the relationship between infectivity loss and genome decay induced by a given disinfectant is known. Here, we performed inactivation experiments using two human enteroviruses, Coxsackievirus B5 and Echovirus 11, with three disinfection methods: low-pressure ultraviolet light (UV254), free chlorine (FC), and ozone. We compared the inactivation rates as measured by culturing to the decay rates of the whole genome, to evaluate the extent of qPCR-measurable genome damage as a function of inactivation. To determine genome damage, we used an approach that estimates damage across the full viral genome from the measured decay of multiple amplicons distributed across the viral genome. Correlations between inactivation and genome decay were observed for all viruses and all disinfection treatments, but results showed that even among closely related viruses, disinfection methods can damage the viral genome to different extents and that genome damage does not necessarily translate to inactivation. For both viruses, UV254 treatment had the closest relationship between inactivation and genome decay and with ozone, the rate of genome decay exceeded the inactivation rate. Finally, for FC, the ratios between methods were vastly different between viruses. This work provides the basis to relate qPCR measurements to infectivity loss and enables the establishment of molecular monitoring tools for assessing enterovirus inactivation during disinfection treatments of water and wastewater.
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- Suzanne Young
- Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Prussin AJ, Belser JA, Bischoff W, Kelley ST, Lin K, Lindsley WG, Nshimyimana JP, Schuit M, Wu Z, Bibby K, Marr LC. Viruses in the Built Environment (VIBE) meeting report. MICROBIOME 2020; 8:1. [PMID: 31901242 PMCID: PMC6942371 DOI: 10.1186/s40168-019-0777-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 31.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2019] [Accepted: 12/18/2019] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND During a period of rapid growth in our understanding of the microbiology of the built environment in recent years, the majority of research has focused on bacteria and fungi. Viruses, while probably as numerous, have received less attention. In response, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation supported a workshop entitled "Viruses in the Built Environment (VIBE)," at which experts in environmental engineering, environmental microbiology, epidemiology, infection prevention, fluid dynamics, occupational health, metagenomics, and virology convened to synthesize recent advances and identify key research questions and knowledge gaps regarding viruses in the built environment. RESULTS Four primary research areas and funding priorities were identified. First, a better understanding of viral communities in the built environment is needed, specifically which viruses are present and their sources, spatial and temporal dynamics, and interactions with bacteria. Second, more information is needed about viruses and health, including viral transmission in the built environment, the relationship between virus detection and exposure, and the definition of a healthy virome. The third research priority is to identify and evaluate interventions for controlling viruses and the virome in the built environment. This encompasses interactions among viruses, buildings, and occupants. Finally, to overcome the challenge of working with viruses, workshop participants emphasized that improved sampling methods, laboratory techniques, and bioinformatics approaches are needed to advance understanding of viruses in the built environment. CONCLUSIONS We hope that identifying these key questions and knowledge gaps will engage other investigators and funding agencies to spur future research on the highly interdisciplinary topic of viruses in the built environment. There are numerous opportunities to advance knowledge, as many topics remain underexplored compared to our understanding of bacteria and fungi. Video abstract.
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- Aaron J. Prussin
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA
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- Influenza Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333 USA
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- Section on Infectious Diseases, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157 USA
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- Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182 USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA
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- Health Effects Laboratory Division (HELD), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Morgantown, WV 26505 USA
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- National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center, Frederick, MD 21702 USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA
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Boehm AB, Silverman AI, Schriewer A, Goodwin K. Systematic review and meta-analysis of decay rates of waterborne mammalian viruses and coliphages in surface waters. WATER RESEARCH 2019; 164:114898. [PMID: 31404902 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2019.114898] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2019] [Revised: 07/04/2019] [Accepted: 07/21/2019] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Surface waters are essential natural resources. They are also receiving waters for a variety of anthropogenic waste streams that carry a myriad of pollutants including pathogens. Watershed and fate and transport models can help inform the spatial and temporal extent of microbial pollution from point and non-point sources and thus provide useful information for managing surface waters. Viruses are particularly important water-related pathogens because they often have a low infectious dose, which means that ingestion of even a small volume of water containing a low concentration of virions has the potential to cause disease. We conducted a systematic review of the literature, following best practices, to gather decay rate constants (k) of mammalian waterborne viruses (enteroviruses, adenoviruses, noroviruses, astroviruses, rotaviruses, and hepatitis A viruses) and coliphages in raw surface waters to aid in the parameterization of virus fate and transport models. We identified 562 k values from the literature, with the largest number identified for enteroviruses and coliphages and the smallest for astrovirus, hepatitis A virus, and norovirus. Average k values for each virus varied from 0.07 to 0.9 per day, in order from smallest to largest: Norwalk virus (i.e., noroviruses) < Human astrovirus < Mastadenovirus (i.e., adenoviruses) < Hepatovirus A (i.e., hepatitis A viruses) < Rotavirus A < coliphages < Enterovirus. A meta-analysis investigated how k varied among viruses for experiments conducted with different virus serotypes or species at different temperatures, salinities, and sunlight exposures, and for experiments that enumerated viruses using different methodologies. Virus species or serotype did not affect k among decay experiments. k values were generally larger for experiments conducted at higher temperatures, in sunlight, and in estuarine waters, and enumerated using culture methods. k values were statistically different between virus types with Norwalk virus, Hepatovirus A, and Mastadenovirus having smaller k values than other viruses, controlling for experimental condition and enumeration method. While F+ coliphage k values were similar to those of Enterovirus, Human astrovirus, and Rotavirus A, they were different from those of the other mammalian viruses. This compilation of coliphage and mammalian virus k values provides essential information for researchers and risk assessors who model virus fate and transport in surface waters and identifies avenues for future research to fill knowledge gaps.
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- Alexandria B Boehm
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
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- Department of Civil and Urban Engineering, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, Brooklyn, NY, 11201, USA; College of Global Public Health, New York University, New York, NY, 10012, USA
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- Weston Solutions, Inc., 5817 Dryden Place Suite 101, Carlsbad, CA, 92008, USA
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- Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (stationed at NOAA/NMFS/SWFSC, La Jolla, CA), Miami, FL, USA
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Gerba CP, Betancourt WQ. Assessing the Occurrence of Waterborne Viruses in Reuse Systems: Analytical Limits and Needs. Pathogens 2019; 8:pathogens8030107. [PMID: 31336640 PMCID: PMC6789576 DOI: 10.3390/pathogens8030107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2019] [Revised: 07/12/2019] [Accepted: 07/19/2019] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Detection of waterborne enteric viruses is an essential tool in assessing the risk of waterborne transmission. Cell culture is considered a gold standard for detection of these viruses. However, it is important to recognize the uncertainty and limitations of enteric virus detection in cell culture. Cell culture cannot support replication of all virus types and strains, and numerous factors control the efficacy of specific virus detection assays, including chemical additives, cell culture passage number, and sequential passage of a sample in cell culture. These factors can result in a 2- to 100-fold underestimation of virus infectivity. Molecular methods reduce the time for detection of viruses and are useful for detection of those that do not produce cytopathogenic effects. The usefulness of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to access virus infectivity has been demonstrated for only a limited number of enteric viruses and is limited by an understanding of the mechanism of virus inactivation. All of these issues are important to consider when assessing waterborne infectious viruses and expected goals on virus reductions needed for recycled water. The use of safety factors to account for this may be useful to ensure that the risks in drinking water and recycled water for potable reuse are minimized.
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- Charles P Gerba
- Water and Energy Sustainable Technology (WEST) Center, The University of Arizona, 2959 W. Calle Agua Nueva, Tucson, AZ 85745, USA
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- Water and Energy Sustainable Technology (WEST) Center, The University of Arizona, 2959 W. Calle Agua Nueva, Tucson, AZ 85745, USA.
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Differences in Viral Disinfection Mechanisms as Revealed by Quantitative Transfection of Echovirus 11 Genomes. Appl Environ Microbiol 2019; 85:AEM.00961-19. [PMID: 31076437 DOI: 10.1128/aem.00961-19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2019] [Accepted: 05/06/2019] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Virus inactivation mechanisms can be elucidated by methods that measure the loss of specific virus functionality (e.g., host attachment, genome internalization, and genome replication). Genome functionality is frequently assessed by PCR-based methods, which are indirect and potentially inaccurate; genome damage that affects detection by high-fidelity PCR enzymes may not adversely affect the ability of actual cellular enzymes to produce functional virus. Therefore, we developed here a transfection-based assay to quantitatively determine viral genome functionality by inserting viral RNA into host cells directly to measure their ability to produce new functional viruses from damaged viral genomes. Echovirus 11 was treated with ozone, free chlorine (FC), UV light at 254 nm (UV254), or heat, and then the reductions in genome functionality and infectivity were compared. Ozone reduced genome functionality proportionally to infectivity, indicating that genome damage is the main mechanism of virus inactivation. In contrast, FC caused little or no loss of genome functionality compared to infectivity, indicating a larger role for protein damage. For UV254, genome functionality loss accounted for approximately 60% of virus inactivation, with the remainder presumably due to protein damage. Heat treatment resulted in no reduction in genome functionality, in agreement with the understanding that heat inactivation results from capsid damage. Our results indicate that there is a fundamental difference between genome integrity reductions measured by PCR enzymes in previous studies and actual genome functionality (whether the genome can produce virus) after disinfection. Compared to PCR, quantitative transfection assays provide a more realistic picture of actual viral genome functionality and overall inactivation mechanisms during disinfection.IMPORTANCE This study provides a new tool for assessing virus inactivation mechanisms by directly measuring a viral genome's ability to produce new viruses after disinfection. In addition, we identify a potential pitfall of PCR for determining virus genome damage, which does not reflect whether a genome is truly functional. The results presented here using quantitative transfection corroborate previously suggested virus inactivation mechanisms for some virus inactivation methods (heat) while bringing additional insights for others (ozone, FC, and UV254). The developed transfection method provides a more mechanistic approach for the assessment of actual virus inactivation by common water disinfectants.
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Zhang Y, Qu S, Xu L. Progress in the study of virus detection methods: The possibility of alternative methods to validate virus inactivation. Biotechnol Bioeng 2019; 116:2095-2102. [PMID: 31038205 DOI: 10.1002/bit.27003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2019] [Revised: 03/21/2019] [Accepted: 04/25/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Virus inactivation validation studies have been widely applied in the risk assessment of biogenic material-based medical products, such as biological products, animal tissue-derived biomaterials, and allogeneic biomaterials, to decrease the risk of virus transmission. Traditional virus detection methods in an inactivation validation study utilize cell culture as a tool to quantify the infectious virus by observing cytopathic effects (CPEs) after virus inactivation. However, this is susceptible to subjective factors because CPEs must be observed by experts under a microscope during virus titration. In addition, this method is costly and time- and labor-consuming. Molecular biological technologies such as quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) have been widely used for virus detection but cannot distinguish infectious and noninfectious viruses. Therefore, qPCR cannot be directly applied to virus inactivation validation studies. In this paper, methods to detect viruses and progress in the challenge of differentiating infectious and noninfectious viruses with the combination of pretreatment and qPCR techniques such as the integrated cell culture-qPCR (ICC-qPCR) method are reviewed. In addition, the advantages and disadvantages of each new method, as well as its prospect in virus inactivation validation studies, are discussed.
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- Yu Zhang
- Institute for Medical Devices Control, National Institutes for Food and Drug Control, Beijing, China.,School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- Institute for Medical Devices Control, National Institutes for Food and Drug Control, Beijing, China
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He H, Zhou P, Shimabuku KK, Fang X, Li S, Lee Y, Dodd MC. Degradation and Deactivation of Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance Genes during Exposure to Free Chlorine, Monochloramine, Chlorine Dioxide, Ozone, Ultraviolet Light, and Hydroxyl Radical. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2019; 53:2013-2026. [PMID: 30712343 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b04393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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This work investigated degradation (measured by qPCR) and biological deactivation (measured by culture-based natural transformation) of extra- and intracellular antibiotic resistance genes (eARGs and iARGs) by free available chlorine (FAC), NH2Cl, O3, ClO2, and UV light (254 nm), and of eARGs by •OH, using a chromosomal ARG ( blt) of multidrug-resistant Bacillus subtilis 1A189. Rate constants for degradation of four 266-1017 bp amplicons adjacent to or encompassing the acfA mutation enabling blt overexpression increased in proportion to #AT+GC bps/amplicon, or in proportion to #5'-GG-3' or 5'-TT-3' doublets/amplicon, with respective values ranging from 0.59 to 2.3 (×1011 M-1 s-1) for •OH, 1.8-6.9 (×104 M-1 s-1) for O3, 3.9-9.2 (×103 M-1 s-1) for FAC, 0.35-1.2(×101 M-1 s-1) for ClO2, and 2.0-8.8 (×10-2 cm2/mJ) for UV at pH 7, and from 1.7-4.4 M-1 s-1 for NH2Cl at pH 8. For FAC, NH2Cl, O3, ClO2, and UV, ARG deactivation paralleled degradation of amplicons approximating a ∼800-1000 bp acfA-flanking sequence required for natural transformation in B. subtilis, whereas deactivation outpaced degradation for •OH. At practical disinfectant exposures, eARGs and iARGs were ≥90% degraded/deactivated by FAC, O3, and UV, but recalcitrant to NH2Cl and ClO2. iARG degradation/ deactivation always lagged cell inactivation. These findings provide a quantitative framework for evaluating ARG fate during disinfection/oxidation, and support using qPCR as a proxy for tracking ARG deactivation under carefully selected circumstances.
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- Huan He
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering , University of Washington (UW) , Seattle , Washington 98195-2700 , United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering , University of Washington (UW) , Seattle , Washington 98195-2700 , United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering , University of Washington (UW) , Seattle , Washington 98195-2700 , United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering , University of Washington (UW) , Seattle , Washington 98195-2700 , United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering , University of Washington (UW) , Seattle , Washington 98195-2700 , United States
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- School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering , Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) , Gwangju 61005 , Republic of Korea
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering , University of Washington (UW) , Seattle , Washington 98195-2700 , United States
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Wang Y, Araud E, Shisler JL, Nguyen TH, Yuan B. Influence of algal organic matter on MS2 bacteriophage inactivation by ultraviolet irradiation at 220 nm and 254 nm. CHEMOSPHERE 2019; 214:195-202. [PMID: 30265926 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.09.065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2018] [Revised: 09/06/2018] [Accepted: 09/12/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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We determined the potential interference of extracellular algal organic matter (EAOM) and intracellular algal organic matter (IAOM) extracted from Microcystis aeruginosa on MS2 bacteriophage inactivation under UV irradiation at two wavelengths (220 and 254 nm). UV irradiation at 220 nm doubled the inactivation rate of MS2 in water containing EAOM than in organic-free phosphate buffered solution. In contrast, EAOM did not change MS2 inactivation by exposure to UV 254 nm. The presence of IAOM did not significantly influence MS2 inactivation by exposure to either UV 254 or UV 220 nm. To achieve 3 log10 inactivation of MS2, UV254 nm required more than double the dose of UV220 nm (45 mJ/cm2 vs. 20 mJ/cm2). Linear correlations between the reduction in infectivity and the reduction in genome copies detected by reverse transcription quantitative polymerase chain reaction suggested that genomic damage is the main mechanism responsible for MS2 inactivation in water containing algal organic matter (AOM) by exposure to UV irradiation. These findings suggest that the presence of AOM did not negatively influence MS2 inactivation by either 220 or 254 nm irradiation, and that a lower UV dose of 220 nm irradiation can be used to achieve the same level of inactivation in water containing AOM.
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- Yulin Wang
- Institute of Municipal and Environmental Engineering, College of Civil Engineering, Huaqiao University, Xiamen, Fujian 361021, PR China
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 205 N. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801, United States
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- Institute of Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1206 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, United States; Department of Microbiology, Institute of Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 601 S. Goodwin, Urbana, IL 61801, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 205 N. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801, United States; Institute of Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1206 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, United States.
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- Institute of Municipal and Environmental Engineering, College of Civil Engineering, Huaqiao University, Xiamen, Fujian 361021, PR China.
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Ye Y, Chang PH, Hartert J, Wigginton KR. Reactivity of Enveloped Virus Genome, Proteins, and Lipids with Free Chlorine and UV 254. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2018; 52:7698-7708. [PMID: 29886734 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b00824] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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The survivability of viruses in natural and engineered systems impacts public health. Inactivation mechanisms in the environment have been described for nonenveloped viruses, but it remains unclear how the membrane layer of enveloped viruses influences inactivation. We applied molecular tools and high-resolution mass spectrometry to measure reactions in the genome, proteins, and lipids of enveloped Pseudomonas phage Phi6 during inactivation by free chlorine and UV254. Free chlorine readily penetrated the lipid membrane to react with proteins in the nucleocapsid and polymerase complex. The most reactive Phi6 peptides were approximately 150 times more reactive with free chlorine than the most reactive peptides reported in nonenveloped coliphage MS2. The inactivation kinetics of Phi6 by UV254 was comparable with those of nonenveloped adenovirus and coliphage MS2 and were driven by UV254 reactions with viral genomes. Our research identifies molecular features of an enveloped virus that are susceptible to chemical oxidants or UV radiation. Finally, the framework developed in the manuscript for studying molecular reactivities of Phi6 can be adopted to investigate enveloped virus survivability under various environmental conditions.
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- Yinyin Ye
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering , University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , Michigan 48109 , United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering , University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , Michigan 48109 , United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering , University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , Michigan 48109 , United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering , University of Michigan , Ann Arbor , Michigan 48109 , United States
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Haramoto E, Kitajima M, Hata A, Torrey JR, Masago Y, Sano D, Katayama H. A review on recent progress in the detection methods and prevalence of human enteric viruses in water. WATER RESEARCH 2018; 135:168-186. [PMID: 29471200 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2018.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 240] [Impact Index Per Article: 40.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2017] [Revised: 02/01/2018] [Accepted: 02/02/2018] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Waterborne human enteric viruses, such as noroviruses and adenoviruses, are excreted in the feces of infected individuals and transmitted via the fecal-oral route including contaminated food and water. Since viruses are normally present at low concentrations in aquatic environments, they should be concentrated into smaller volumes prior to downstream molecular biological applications, such as quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR). This review describes recent progress made in the development of concentration and detection methods of human enteric viruses in water, and discusses their applications for providing a better understanding of the prevalence of the viruses in various types of water worldwide. Maximum concentrations of human enteric viruses in water that have been reported in previous studies are summarized to assess viral abundances in aquatic environments. Some descriptions are also available on recent applications of sequencing analyses used to determine the genetic diversity of viral genomes in water samples, including those of novel viruses. Furthermore, the importance and significance of utilizing appropriate process controls during viral analyses are discussed, and three types of process controls are considered: whole process controls, molecular process controls, and (reverse transcription (RT)-)qPCR controls. Although no standards have been established for acceptable values of virus recovery and/or extraction-(RT-)qPCR efficiency, use of at least one of these appropriate control types is highly recommended for more accurate interpretation of observed data.
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- Eiji Haramoto
- Interdisciplinary Center for River Basin Environment, Graduate Faculty of Interdisciplinary Research, University of Yamanashi, 4-3-11 Takeda, Kofu, Yamanashi 400-8511, Japan.
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- Division of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, North 13 West 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8628, Japan.
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- Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science, Institutes for Advanced Study, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8654, Japan.
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- School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
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- Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability, United Nations University, 5-53-70 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-8925, Japan.
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Aoba 6-6-06, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8579, Japan.
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- Department of Urban Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan; Vietnam Japan University, Luu Huu Phuoc Road, My Dinh 1 Ward, Nam Tu Liem District, Ha Noi, Vietnam.
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Goetsch HE, Zhao L, Gnegy M, Imperiale MJ, Love NG, Wigginton KR. Fate of the Urinary Tract Virus BK Human Polyomavirus in Source-Separated Urine. Appl Environ Microbiol 2018; 84:e02374-17. [PMID: 29374036 PMCID: PMC5861842 DOI: 10.1128/aem.02374-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2017] [Accepted: 01/20/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Human polyomaviruses are emerging pathogens that infect a large percentage of the human population and are excreted in urine. Consequently, urine that is collected for fertilizer production often has high concentrations of polyomavirus genes. We studied the fate of infectious double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) BK human polyomavirus (BKPyV) in hydrolyzed source-separated urine with infectivity assays and quantitative PCR (qPCR). Although BKPyV genomes persisted in the hydrolyzed urine for long periods of time (T90 [time required for 90% reduction in infectivity or gene copies] of >3 weeks), the viruses were rapidly inactivated (T90 of 1.1 to 11 h) in most of the tested urine samples. Interestingly, the infectivity of dsDNA bacteriophage surrogate T3 (T90 of 24 to 46 days) was much more persistent than that of BKPyV, highlighting a major shortcoming of using bacteriophages as human virus surrogates. Pasteurization and filtration experiments suggest that BKPyV virus inactivation was due to microorganism activity in the source-separated urine, and SDS-PAGE Western blots showed that BKPyV protein capsid disassembly is concurrent with inactivation. Our results imply that stored urine does not pose a substantial risk of BKPyV transmission, that qPCR and infectivity of the dsDNA surrogate do not accurately depict BKPyV fate, and that microbial inactivation is driven by structural elements of the BKPyV capsid.IMPORTANCE We demonstrate that a common urinary tract virus has a high susceptibility to the conditions in hydrolyzed urine and consequently would not be a substantial exposure route to humans using urine-derived fertilizers. The results have significant implications for understanding virus fate. First, by demonstrating that the dsDNA (double-stranded DNA) genome of the polyomavirus lasts for weeks despite infectivity lasting for hours to days, our work highlights the shortcomings of using qPCR to estimate risks from unculturable viruses. Second, commonly used dsDNA surrogate viruses survived for weeks under the same conditions that BK polyomavirus survived for only hours, highlighting issues with using virus surrogates to predict how human viruses will behave in the environment. Finally, our mechanistic inactivation analysis provides strong evidence that microbial activity drives rapid virus inactivation, likely through capsid disassembly. Overall, our work underlines how subtle structural differences between viruses can greatly impact their environmental fate.
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- Heather E Goetsch
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Oishi W, Sano D, Decrey L, Kadoya S, Kohn T, Funamizu N. Identification of the inactivating factors and mechanisms exerted on MS2 coliphage in concentrated synthetic urine. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2017; 598:213-219. [PMID: 28445822 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.04.088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2016] [Revised: 04/08/2017] [Accepted: 04/09/2017] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Volume reduction (condensation) is a key for the practical usage of human urine as a fertilizer because it enables the saving of storage space and the reduction of transportation cost. However, concentrated urine may carry infectious disease risks resulting from human pathogens frequently present in excreta, though the survival of pathogens in concentrated urine is not well understood. In this study, the inactivation of MS2 coliphage, a surrogate for single-stranded RNA human enteric viruses, in concentrated synthetic urine was investigated. The infectious titer reduction of MS2 coliphage in synthetic urine samples was measured by plaque assay, and the reduction of genome copy number was monitored by reverse transcription-quantitative PCR (RTqPCR). Among chemical-physical conditions such as pH and osmotic pressure, uncharged ammonia was shown to be the predominant factor responsible for MS2 inactivation, independently of urine concentration level. The reduction rate of the viral genome number varied among genome regions, but the comprehensive reduction rate of six genome regions was well correlated with that of the infectious titer of MS2 coliphage. This indicates that genome degradation is the main mechanism driving loss of infectivity, and that RT-qPCR targeting the six genome regions can be used as a culture-independent assay for monitoring infectivity loss of the coliphage in urine. MS2 inactivation rate constants were well predicted by a model using ion composition and speciation in synthetic urine samples, which suggests that MS2 infectivity loss can be estimated solely based on the solution composition, temperature and pH, without explicitly accounting for effects of osmotic pressure.
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- Wakana Oishi
- Division of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, North 13, West 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8628, Japan
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Aoba 6-6-06, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8579, Japan.
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- Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Division of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, North 13, West 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8628, Japan
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- Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Division of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, North 13, West 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8628, Japan
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Chang PH, Juhrend B, Olson TM, Marrs CF, Wigginton KR. Degradation of Extracellular Antibiotic Resistance Genes with UV 254 Treatment. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2017; 51:6185-6192. [PMID: 28475324 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b01120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Disinfected wastewater effluent contains a complex mixture of biomolecules including DNA. If intact genes conveying antibiotic resistance survive the disinfection process, environmental bacteria may take them up. We treated plasmid pWH1266, which contains ampicillin resistance gene blaTEM-1 and tetracycline resistance gene tetA, with UV254 doses up to 430 mJ/cm2 and studied the ability of those genes to be acquired by Acinetobacter baylyi. The plasmids required approximately 20-25 mJ/cm2 per log10 loss of transformation efficiency. We monitored plasmid DNA degradation using gel electrophoresis and qPCR with both short amplicons (∼200 bps, representative of ARG amplicon lengths commonly used for environmental monitoring) and long amplicons (800-1200 bps, designed to cover the entire resistance genes). The rate of transformability loss due to UV254 treatment was approximately 20× and 2× larger than the rate of gene degradation measured with the short and long amplicons qPCR, respectively. When extrapolated to account for the length of the entire pWH1266 plasmid, the qPCR rate constants were 2-7× larger than the rate constants measured with transformation assays. Gel electrophoresis results confirmed that DNA cleavage was not a major inactivating mechanism. Overall, our results demonstrate that qPCR conservatively measures the potential for a gene to be transformed by environmental bacteria following UV254 treatment.
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- Pin Hsuan Chang
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Epidemiology Department, University of Michigan , 1415 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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Quantitative reverse transcription PCR to determine the inactivation of Human Rotavirus by chlorine. Int J Hyg Environ Health 2017; 220:719-725. [PMID: 28292642 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2017.02.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2016] [Revised: 02/25/2017] [Accepted: 02/25/2017] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Human rotaviruses (HRVs) are the major cause of acute diarrhea in infants and young children. Here, a real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction assay targeting the rotaviral VP4 gene (VP4-RT-qPCR) was established to evaluate the inactivation of HRV upon chlorine disinfection, based on a previous report that damage to the 1227-2354bp region of the VP4 gene was associated with eliminated HRV infectivity by chlorine. In this study, inactivation of HRV by 0.6mg/L free chlorine was assessed in phosphate buffered saline (PBS; pH 7.2), and tap and river water samples, using both TCID50 and RT-qPCR (VP2- and VP4-RT-qPCR) assays, respectively. Among the samples tested, the VP2-RT-qPCR method did not show significant inactivation after chlorine disinfection; however, the reduction in VP4-RT-qPCR signal was correlated with decreased HRV infectivity. Moreover, the higher sensitivity of the VP4-RT-qPCR assay allowed for assessment of chlorine HRV inactivation at longer exposure times compared with the conventional TCID50 assay. Collectively, these results indicated that the VP4-RT-qPCR assay is a rapid, sensitive, and reliable tool to detect infectious HRV following chlorine inactivation, and highlights the potential for further development of qPCR/RT-qPCR assays to provide information regarding viral infectivity from drinking water plants.
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Qiao Z, Wigginton KR. Direct and Indirect Photochemical Reactions in Viral RNA Measured with RT-qPCR and Mass Spectrometry. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2016; 50:13371-13379. [PMID: 27993065 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b04281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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RNA carries the genetic instructions for many viruses to replicate in their host cells. The photochemical reactions that take place in RNA and affect viral infectivity in natural and engineered environments, however, remain poorly understood. We exposed RNA oligomer segments from the genome of bacteriophage MS2 to UV254, simulated sunlight, and singlet oxygen (1O2) and analyzed the oligomer reaction kinetics with reverse transcription quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) and quantitative matrix-assisted laser desorption-ionization time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry (MS). Following UV254 exposure, quantitative MALDI-TOF-MS detected significantly more RNA modifications than did RT-qPCR, suggesting that certain chemical modifications in the RNA were not detected by the reverse transcriptase enzyme. In contrast, MALDI-TOF-MS tracked as much 1O2-induced RNA damage as RT-qPCR. After 5 h of simulated sunlight exposure (5100 J/m2 UVB and 1.2 × 105 J/m2 UVA), neither MALDI-TOF-MS nor RT-qPCR detected significant decreases in the oligomer concentrations. High-resolution electrospray ionization (ESI)-Orbitrap MS analyses identified pyrimidine photohydrates as the major UV254 products, which likely contributed to the discrepancy between the MS- and RT-qPCR-based results. Reactions between RNA oligomers and 1O2 resulted in an unidentified major product with a mass change of +6 Da. These results shed light on the photochemical reactions that take place in RNA and suggest that the analytical techniques used to detect RNA reactivity could bias the observed reaction kinetics.
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- Zhong Qiao
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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Barrett M, Fitzhenry K, O'Flaherty V, Dore W, Keaveney S, Cormican M, Rowan N, Clifford E. Detection, fate and inactivation of pathogenic norovirus employing settlement and UV treatment in wastewater treatment facilities. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2016; 568:1026-1036. [PMID: 27350093 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.06.067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2016] [Revised: 06/08/2016] [Accepted: 06/10/2016] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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It is accepted that discharged wastewaters can be a significant source of pathogenic viruses in receiving water bodies contributing to pollution and may in turn enter the human food chain and pose a risk to human health, thus norovirus (NoV) is often a predominant cause of gastroenteritis globally. Working with NoV poses particular challenges as it cannot be readily identified and detection by molecular methods does not assess infectivity. It has been proposed that the infectivity of NoV may be modelled through the use of an alternative virus; F-specific RNA (FRNA) bacteriophages; GA genotype and other FRNA bacteriophages have been used as a surrogate in studies of NoV inactivation. This study investigated the efficiency of novel pulsed ultraviolet irradiation and low pressure ultraviolet irradiation as a potential pathogen inactivation system for NoV and FRNA bacteriophage (GA) in secondary treated wastewaters. The role of UV dose and the impact of suspended solids concentration on removal efficiency were also examined. The study also investigated the role of settlement processes in wastewater treatment plants in removing NoV. While NoV inactivation could not be determined it was found that at a maximum UV dose of 6.9J/cm(2) (6900mJ/cm(2)) an average 2.4 log removal of FRNA bacteriophage (GA) was observed; indicating the potential need for high UV doses to remove NoV if FRNA bacteriophage prove a suitable indicator for NoV. The study found that increasing concentrations of suspended solids impacted on PUV efficiency however, it appears the extent of the impact may be site specific. Furthermore, the study found that settlement processes can play a significant role in the removal of FRNA bacteriophage, thus potentially NoV.
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- M Barrett
- Microbial Ecology Laboratory, Microbiology, School of Natural sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland; Ryan Institute, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland; College of Engineering and Informatics, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
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- Ryan Institute, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland; College of Engineering and Informatics, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
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- Microbial Ecology Laboratory, Microbiology, School of Natural sciences, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland; Ryan Institute, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
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- Marine Institute, Galway, Ireland
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- Ryan Institute, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland; Centre for Health from Environment, Ryan Institute, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
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- Bioscience Research Institute, Athlone Institute of Technology, Ireland
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- Ryan Institute, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland; College of Engineering and Informatics, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland.
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McLellan NL, Lee H, Habash MB. Evaluation of propidium monoazide and long-amplicon qPCR as an infectivity assay for coliphage. J Virol Methods 2016; 238:48-55. [PMID: 27744093 DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2016.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2016] [Revised: 08/17/2016] [Accepted: 10/09/2016] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Standardized and rapid assays for viable viral pathogens are needed to inform human health risk assessments. Conventional qPCR is designed to enumerate the gene copies of an organism in a sample, but does not identify those that originated from a viable pathogen. This study was undertaken to evaluate modified qPCR methods as infectivity assays for the enumeration of infectious MS2 coliphage. Propidium monoazide (PMA) treatment coupled with long-amplicon qPCR assays were assessed for their ability to quantify infectious MS2 in pure cultures and following inactivation by a range of UV light exposures and chlorine doses. The qPCR results were compared to the plaque assay, which was used as the standard to indicate the level of infectious MS2 in each sample. For pure cultures, PMA-qPCR results were not significantly different from the plaque assay (p>0.05). At >4 log inactivation, combined PMA and long-amplicon qPCR assays overestimated the level of infectious MS2 remaining (p<0.05). The most accurate long-amplicon qPCR infectivity assay targeted a 624-bp region at the 5' end of the genome. Modified qPCR approaches may be useful tools to monitor the loss of infectivity as a result of disinfection processes.
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- Nicole L McLellan
- School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada.
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- School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada.
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- School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada.
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Relevance of F-Specific RNA Bacteriophages in Assessing Human Norovirus Risk in Shellfish and Environmental Waters. Appl Environ Microbiol 2016; 82:5709-19. [PMID: 27422833 DOI: 10.1128/aem.01528-16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2016] [Accepted: 07/08/2016] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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UNLABELLED Human noroviruses (HuNoVs) are the main cause of shellfish-borne gastroenteritis outbreaks. In the absence of routine technical approaches allowing infectious particles to be detected, this viral pathogen is currently targeted by genome research, leading to difficult interpretations. In this study, we investigated the potential of F-specific RNA bacteriophages (FRNAPH) as fecal and viral contamination indicators in shellfish and water from a local harvesting area. FRNAPH were also used as microbial source tracking tools. Constraints imposed by detection limits are illustrated here by the detection of infectious FRNAPH in several samples in the absence of FRNAPH genomes. The opposite situation was also observed, likely explained by the persistence of the genomes being greater than infectivity. Similar considerations may be applied to HuNoVs, suggesting that HuNoV genome targeting is of limited relevance in assessing infectious risks. While FRNAPH did not provide any benefits compared to Escherichia coli as fecal pollution indicators in water, novel observations were made in shellfish: contrary to E. coli, a seasonal trend of infectious FRNAPH concentrations was observed. These concentrations were higher than those found in water, confirming bioaccumulation in shellfish. This study also underlines a relationship between the presence of HuNoV genomes and those of human-specific FRNAPH subgroup II (FRNAPH-II) in shellfish collected throughout Europe. Further research should be undertaken to evaluate FRNAPH potential as an indicator of the presence of infectious HuNoVs. To this end, shellfish involved in HuNoV-caused gastroenteritis outbreaks should be analyzed for the presence of infectious FRNAPH-II. IMPORTANCE This work provides new data about the use of F-specific RNA phages (FRNAPH) as a tool for evaluating fecal or viral contamination, especially in shellfish. In our case study, FRNAPH did not provide any benefits compared to E. coli as fecal pollution indicators in water but were found to be very useful in shellfish. Their concentrations in shellfish were higher than those found in the surrounding water, confirming bioaccumulation. This study also underlines a relationship between the presence of human norovirus genomes (HuNoVs) and those of FRNAPH subgroup II (FRNAPH-II). Considering that the two virus types have similar behaviors and since FRNAPH infectivity can be investigated, the specific detection of infectious FRNAPH-II could be regarded as an indication of the presence of infectious HuNoVs. The contribution of infectious human FRNAPH targeting for assessing the viral risk associated with HuNoVs in shellfish should thus be investigated.
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Cook N, Knight A, Richards GP. Persistence and Elimination of Human Norovirus in Food and on Food Contact Surfaces: A Critical Review. J Food Prot 2016; 79:1273-94. [PMID: 27357051 DOI: 10.4315/0362-028x.jfp-15-570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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This critical review addresses the persistence of human norovirus (NoV) in water, shellfish, and processed meats; on berries, herbs, vegetables, fruits, and salads; and on food contact surfaces. The review focuses on studies using NoV; information from studies involving only surrogates is not included. It also addresses NoV elimination or inactivation by various chemical, physical, or processing treatments. In most studies, persistence or elimination was determined by detection and quantification of the viral genome, although improved methods for determining infectivity have been proposed. NoV persisted for 60 to 728 days in water, depending on water source. It also persisted on berries, vegetables, and fruit, often showing <1-log reduction within 1 to 2 weeks. NoV was resilient on carpets, Formica, stainless steel, polyvinyl chloride, and ceramic surfaces; during shellfish depuration; and to repeated freeze-thaw cycles. Copper alloy surfaces may inactivate NoV by damaging viral capsids. Disinfection was achieved for some foods or food contact surfaces using chlorine, calcium or sodium hypochlorite, chlorine dioxide, high hydrostatic pressure, high temperatures, pH values >8.0, freeze-drying, and UV radiation. Ineffective disinfectants included hydrogen peroxide, quaternary ammonium compounds, most ethanol-based disinfectants, and antiseptics at normally used concentrations. Thorough washing of herbs and produce was effective in reducing, but not eliminating, NoV in most products. Washing hands with soap generally reduced NoV by <2 log. Recommendations for future research needs are provided.
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- Nigel Cook
- Food and Environment Research Agency, Sand Hutton, York, YO41 1LZ, UK
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- Leatherhead Food Research, Leatherhead, Surrey, KT22 7RY, UK
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- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Dover, Delaware 19901, USA.
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Guerrero-Latorre L, Gonzales-Gustavson E, Hundesa A, Sommer R, Rosina G. UV disinfection and flocculation-chlorination sachets to reduce hepatitis E virus in drinking water. Int J Hyg Environ Health 2016; 219:405-11. [PMID: 27079972 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2016.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2016] [Revised: 04/05/2016] [Accepted: 04/05/2016] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Hepatitis E Virus (HEV) is a major cause of waterborne outbreaks in areas with poor sanitation. As safe water supplies are the keystone for preventing HEV outbreaks, data on the efficacy of disinfection treatments are urgently needed. Here, we evaluated the ability of UV radiation and flocculation-chlorination sachets (FCSs) to reduce HEV in water matrices. The HEV-p6-kernow strain was replicated in the HepG2/C3A cell line, and we quantified genome number using qRT-PCR and infectivity using an immunofluorescence assay (IFA). UV irradiation tests using low-pressure radiation showed inactivation kinetics for HEV of 99.99% with a UV fluence of 232J/m(2) (IC 95%, 195,02-269,18). Moreover, the FCSs preparations significantly reduced viral concentrations in both water matrices, although the inactivation results were under the baseline of reduction (4.5 LRV) proposed by WHO guidelines.
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- Laura Guerrero-Latorre
- Laboratory of virus contaminants of water and food. Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 643, 08028 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Laboratory of virus contaminants of water and food. Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 643, 08028 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Laboratory of virus contaminants of water and food. Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 643, 08028 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Institute for Hygiene and Applied Immunology, Water Hygiene, Medical University Vienna, Kinderspitalgasse 15, 1095 Vienna, Austria
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- Laboratory of virus contaminants of water and food. Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 643, 08028 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
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Gall AM, Shisler JL, Mariñas BJ. Characterizing Bacteriophage PR772 as a Potential Surrogate for Adenovirus in Water Disinfection: A Comparative Analysis of Inactivation Kinetics and Replication Cycle Inhibition by Free Chlorine. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2016; 50:2522-2529. [PMID: 26820824 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b04713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Elucidating mechanisms by which pathogenic waterborne viruses become inactivated by drinking water disinfectants would facilitate the development of sensors to detect infectious viruses and novel disinfection strategies to provide safe water. Using bacteriophages as surrogates for human pathogenic viruses could assist in elucidating these mechanisms; however, an appropriate viral surrogate for human adenovirus (HAdV), a medium-sized virus with a double-stranded DNA genome, needs to be identified. Here, we characterized the inactivation kinetics of bacteriophage PR772, a member of the Tectiviridae family with many similarities in structure and replication to HAdV. The inactivation of PR772 and HAdV by free chlorine had similar kinetics that could be represented with a model previously developed for HAdV type 2 (HAdV-2). We developed and tested a quantitative assay to analyze several steps in the PR772 replication cycle to determine if both viruses being inactivated at similar rates resulted from similar replication cycle events being inhibited. Like HAdV-2, we observed that PR772 inactivated by free chlorine still attached to host cells, and viral DNA synthesis and early and late gene transcription were inhibited. Consequently, free chlorine exposure inhibited a replication cycle event that was post-binding but took place prior to early gene synthesis for both PR772 and HAdV-2.
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- Aimee M Gall
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, ‡Department of Microbiology and College of Medicine, and §Safe Global Water Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, ‡Department of Microbiology and College of Medicine, and §Safe Global Water Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, ‡Department of Microbiology and College of Medicine, and §Safe Global Water Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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Comparison of UV-Induced Inactivation and RNA Damage in MS2 Phage across the Germicidal UV Spectrum. Appl Environ Microbiol 2015; 82:1468-1474. [PMID: 26712541 DOI: 10.1128/aem.02773-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2015] [Accepted: 12/13/2015] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Polychromatic UV irradiation is a common method of pathogen inactivation in the water treatment industry. To improve its disinfection efficacy, more information on the mechanisms of UV inactivation on microorganisms at wavelengths throughout the germicidal UV spectrum, particularly at below 240 nm, is necessary. This work examined UV inactivation of bacteriophage MS2, a common surrogate for enteric pathogens, as a function of wavelength. The bacteriophage was exposed to monochromatic UV irradiation from a tunable laser at wavelengths of between 210 nm and 290 nm. To evaluate the mechanisms of UV inactivation throughout this wavelength range, RT-qPCR (reverse transcription-quantitative PCR) was performed to measure genomic damage for comparison with genomic damage at 253.7 nm. The results indicate that the rates of RNA damage closely mirror the loss of viral infectivity across the germicidal UV spectrum. This demonstrates that genomic damage is the dominant cause of MS2 inactivation from exposure to germicidal UV irradiation. These findings contrast those for adenovirus, for which MS2 is used as a viral surrogate for validating polychromatic UV reactors.
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Moore MD, Goulter RM, Jaykus LA. Human norovirus as a foodborne pathogen: challenges and developments. Annu Rev Food Sci Technol 2015; 6:411-33. [PMID: 25884284 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-food-022814-015643] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Human noroviruses (NoVs) are the leading cause of foodborne illness in the United States, and they exact a considerable human and economic burden worldwide. In fact, the many challenging aspects of human NoV have caused some to call it the nearly perfect foodborne pathogen. In this review, a brief overview of NoVs and their genetic structure is provided. Additionally, the challenges and recent developments related to human NoVs regarding viral evolution, transmission, epidemiology, outbreak identification, cultivation, animal and human models, and detection are presented.
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- Matthew D Moore
- Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695;
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Bowman AS, Nolting JM, Nelson SW, Bliss N, Stull JW, Wang Q, Premanandan C. Effects of disinfection on the molecular detection of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus. Vet Microbiol 2015; 179:213-8. [PMID: 26072369 PMCID: PMC7127254 DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2015.05.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2015] [Revised: 05/28/2015] [Accepted: 05/30/2015] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Routine detection of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) is currently limited to RT-PCR but this test cannot distinguish between viable and inactivated virus. We evaluated the capability of disinfectants to both inactivate PEDV and sufficiently damage viral RNA beyond RT-PCR detection. Five classes of disinfectants (phenol, quaternary ammonium compound, sodium hypochlorite, oxidizing agent, and quaternary ammonium/glutaraldehyde combination) were evaluated in vitro at varying concentrations, both in the presence and absence of swine feces, and at three different temperatures. No infectious PEDV was recovered after treatment with evaluated disinfectants. Additionally, all tested disinfectants except for 0.17% sodium hypochlorite dramatically reduced qRT-PCR values. However, no disinfectants eliminated RT-PCR detection of PEDV across all replicates; although, 0.52%, 1.03% and 2.06% solutions of sodium hypochlorite and 0.5% oxidizing agent did intermittently produce RT-PCR negatives. To simulate field conditions in a second aim, PEDV was applied to pitted aluminum coupons, which were then treated with either 2.06% sodium hypochlorite or 0.5% oxidizing agent. Post-treatment surface swabs of the coupons tested RT-PCR positive but were not infectious to cultured cells or naïve pigs. Ultimately, viable PEDV was not detected following application of each of the tested disinfectants, however in most cases RT-PCR detection of viral RNA remained. RT-PCR detection of PEDV is likely even after disinfection with many commercially available disinfectants.
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- Andrew S Bowman
- Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, The Ohio State University, 1920 Coffey Road, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
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- Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, The Ohio State University, 1920 Coffey Road, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, The Ohio State University, 1920 Coffey Road, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, The Ohio State University, 1920 Coffey Road, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, The Ohio State University, 1920 Coffey Road, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, The Ohio State University, 1920 Coffey Road, Columbus, OH 43210, USA; Food Animal Health Research Program, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences, The Ohio State University, 1680 Madison Ave, Wooster, OH 44691, USA
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- Department of Veterinary Biosciences, The Ohio State University, 1925 Coffey Road, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Aimee M. Gall
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
- Safe Global Water Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
- Safe Global Water Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
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- Safe Global Water Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
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- Safe Global Water Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
- Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
- College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America
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Gall AM, Shisler JL, Mariñas BJ. Analysis of the viral replication cycle of adenovirus serotype 2 after inactivation by free chlorine. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2015; 49:4584-4590. [PMID: 25756747 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b00301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Free chlorine is effective at inactivating a wide range of waterborne viral pathogens including human adenovirus (HAdV), but the mechanisms by which free chlorine inactivates HAdV and other human viruses remain to be elucidated. Such advances in fundamental knowledge are key for development of new disinfection technologies and novel sensors to detect infectious viruses in drinking water. We developed and tested a quantitative assay to analyze several steps in the HAdV replication cycle upon increasing free chlorine exposure. We used quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) to detect HAdV genomic DNA as a means to quantify attachment and genome replication of untreated and treated virions. Also, we used quantitative reverse-transcription PCR (RT-qPCR) to quantify the transcription of E1A (first early protein) and hexon mRNA. We compared these replication cycle events to virus inactivation kinetics to determine what stage of the virus replication cycle was inhibited as a function of free chlorine exposure. We observed that adenovirus inactivated at levels up to 99.99% by free chlorine still attached to host cells; however, viral DNA synthesis and early E1A and late hexon gene transcription were inhibited. We conclude that free chlorine exposure interferes with a replication cycle event occurring postbinding but prior to early viral protein synthesis.
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- Aimee M Gall
- †Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, ‡Department of Microbiology and College of Medicine, and §Safe Global Water Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- †Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, ‡Department of Microbiology and College of Medicine, and §Safe Global Water Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- †Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, ‡Department of Microbiology and College of Medicine, and §Safe Global Water Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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Culture-independent evaluation of nonenveloped-virus infectivity reduced by free-chlorine disinfection. Appl Environ Microbiol 2015; 81:2819-26. [PMID: 25681178 DOI: 10.1128/aem.03802-14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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The inability of molecular detection methods to distinguish disinfected virions from infectious ones has hampered the assessment of infectivity for enteric viruses caused by disinfection practices. In the present study, the reduction of infectivity of murine norovirus S7-PP3 and mengovirus vMC0, surrogates of human noroviruses and enteroviruses, respectively, caused by free-chlorine treatment was characterized culture independently by detecting carbonyl groups on viral capsid protein. The amount of carbonyls on viral capsid protein was evaluated by the proportion of biotinylated virions trapped by avidin-immobilized gel (percent adsorbed). This culture-independent approach demonstrated that the percent adsorbed was significantly correlated with the logarithm of the infectious titer of tested viruses. Taken together with the results of previous reports, the result obtained in this study indicates that the amount of carbonyls on viral capsid protein of four important families of waterborne pathogenic viruses, Astroviridae, Reoviridae, Caliciviridae, and Picornaviridae, is increased in proportion to the received oxidative stress of free chlorine. There was also a significant correlation between the percent adsorbed and the logarithm of the ratio of genome copy number to PFU, which enables estimation of the infectious titer of a subject virus by measuring values of the total genome copy number and the percent adsorbed. The proposed method is applicable when the validation of a 4-log reduction of viruses, a requirement in U.S. EPA guidelines for virus removal from water, is needed along with clear evidence of the oxidation of virus particles with chlorine-based disinfectants.
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