Environmental virology

Author: Zheng Yaotong, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: This book is divided into four parts: Virus Contamination of the Environment and Its Research Methods, Ecological Behavior of Viruses Under Different Environmental Conditions, Inactivation and Removal of Virus Contamination in the Environment, and Virus Safety in Environmental Pollution and Risk Assessment, totaling sixteen chapters. The book takes the contamination of viruses in the environment and their ecological behavior as the main thread, systematically elaborating on the basic knowledge and principles of environmental virology; it thoroughly discusses virus contamination in different environments, as well as concentration and detection techniques for contaminated viruses; it specifically introduces the ecological behavior and inactivation mechanisms of viruses in surface water, subsurface and groundwater, aerosols and solid waste environments, soil environments, food and vegetable environments; it elaborates on the removal and disinfection technologies for viruses in wastewater treatment, drinking water treatment, and solid waste treatment; finally, it also introduces the mathematical models and dynamic processes of viral ecological behavior in the environment, indicators of virus contamination and removal, and risk assessment of virus contamination in the environment. This book can serve as a textbook for environmental virology or as a supplementary textbook for environmental microbiology. It is also a valuable reference for environmental engineering researchers, agricultural engineers, water and wastewater treatment personnel, food scientists, and public health workers.