Virus contamination and infectivity in beach environment: Focus on sand and stranded material.
Adenovirus
Beach cast
Coronavirus
Enterovirus
Sand
Virus persistence
Journal
Marine pollution bulletin
ISSN: 1879-3363
Titre abrégé: Mar Pollut Bull
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0260231
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Dec 2022
Dec 2022
Historique:
received:
15
09
2022
revised:
01
11
2022
accepted:
02
11
2022
pubmed:
18
11
2022
medline:
2
12
2022
entrez:
17
11
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
To assess the exposure of beachgoers to viruses, a study on seawater, sand, and beach-stranded material was carried out, searching for human viruses, fecal indicator organisms, and total fungi. Moreover, for the first time, the genome persistence and infectivity of two model viruses was studied in laboratory-spiked sand and seawater samples during a one-week experiment. Viral genome was detected in 13.6 % of the environmental samples, but it was not infectious (Human Adenovirus - HAdV, and enterovirus). Norovirus and SARS-CoV-2 were not detected. The most contaminated samples were from sand and close to riverine discharges. In lab-scale experiments, the infectivity of HAdV5 decreased by ~1.5-Log
Identifiants
pubmed: 36395711
pii: S0025-326X(22)01024-4
doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.114342
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Sand
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Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
114342Informations de copyright
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Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.