Towards an early-warning tool predicting enteric virus contamination in coastal watersheds

Abstract -

Enteric viruses arising from human sewage spill-over into water catchments represent a threat to human health through water-using food production or water-based recreational activities. Despite continuous efforts in wastewater treatment and microbiological monitoring of water bodies, viral contamination of food during production still occurs in Europe, with adverse health effects on consumers and economic consequences on food producers. Filtering large amounts of their growing waters, shellfish are both a food, and a sentinel of the microbial quality of their environment. Shellfish contamination by norovirus, an enteric virus, is indeed the most frequent [...]

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