

@article {4277,
	title = {{Bacteriophages as viral pollution indicators}},
	journal = {Water Research},
	volume = {8},
	number = {3},
	year = {1974},
	month = {mar},
	pages = {165{\textendash}171},
	abstract = {f2 Phage, attenuated Polio I (LSC) strain introduced daily to a 350 l. experimental oxidation pond showed no decrease in bacterial viruses f2 or other coliphages or Polio I strain. Ratios of coliphages to human enteric viruses ranged in flood waters from concentrations as low as 1:1 to as high as 103:1; in wastewater at various seasons the ratio was 105:1; in trickling filter effluents in winter it was 104:1; in spring 105:1, in summer and fall 104:1, in oxidation pond effluents in winter 103:1; in spring 104:1; and in summer and fall 103:1. Out of three epidemics in small communities caused by failure of water supply, coliphages were found to be positive. At the same time only two samples of human enteric viruses were positive (the third was contaminated with yeasts). Chlorination experiments using the experimental oxidation pond showed that f2 was most resistant, MS2 was very resistant, and coliphages were more resistant than attenuated Polio I virus. Experiments with the oxidation pond effluents showed that coliphages were at least as or even more resistant to chlorine than human enteric viruses.},
	issn = {00431354},
	doi = {10.1016/0043-1354(74)90039-6},
	url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0043135474900396},
	author = {Kott, Y and Roze, N and Sperber, S and Betzer, N}
}
