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Langeveld, J.G. (author), Schilperoort, Remy (author), Heijnen, Leo (author), Elsinga, Goffe (author), Schapendonk, Claudia E.M. (author), Fanoy, Ewout (author), de Schepper, Evelien I.T. (author), Koopmans, Marion P.G. (author), de Graaf, Miranda (author), Medema, G.J. (author)Over the course of the Corona Virus Disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic in 2020–2022, monitoring of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ribonucleic acid (SARS-CoV-2 RNA) in wastewater has rapidly evolved into a supplementary surveillance instrument for public health. Short term trends (2 weeks) are used as a basis for policy and...journal article 2023
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Izquierdo-Lara, Ray W. (author), Heijnen, Leo (author), Oude Munnink, Bas B. (author), Schapendonk, Claudia M.E. (author), Elsinga, Goffe (author), Langeveld, J.G. (author), Post, Johan (author), Prasad, Divyae K. (author), Medema, G.J. (author)Monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater (WW) is a promising tool for epidemiological surveillance, correlating not only viral RNA levels with the infection dynamics within the population, but also to viral diversity. However, the complex mixture of viral lineages in WW samples makes tracking of specific variants or lineages circulating in the...journal article 2023
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de Graaf, Miranda (author), Langeveld, J.G. (author), Post, Johan (author), Carrizosa, Christian (author), Franz, Eelco (author), Izquierdo-Lara, Ray W. (author), Elsinga, Goffe (author), Heijnen, Leo (author), Medema, G.J. (author)Despite high vaccination rates in the Netherlands, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) continues to circulate. Longitudinal sewage surveillance was implemented along with the notification of cases as two parts of the surveillance pyramid to validate the use of sewage for surveillance, as an early warning tool, and to...journal article 2023
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Bicudo, Bruno (author), Medema, G.J. (author), van Halem, D. (author)Electrochemical ferrous iron (Fe<sup>2+</sup>) wastewater treatment is gaining momentum for treating municipal wastewater due to its decreasing costs, environmental friendliness and capacity for removal of a wide range of contaminants. Disinfection by iron electrocoagulation (Fe-EC) has been occasionally reported in full scale industrial...journal article 2022
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Chen, L. (author), Li, Xuan (author), van der Meer, Walter (author), Medema, G.J. (author), Liu, G. (author)The aperiodic changes in the quantity and community of planktonic and particle-associated bacteria have hampered the understanding and management of microbiological water quality in drinking water distribution systems. In this study, online sampling was combined with the microbial fingerprint-based SourceTracker2 to capture and trace the...journal article 2022
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Eisfeld, R.C.M. (author), Schijven, Jack F. (author), van der Wolf, Jan M. (author), Medema, G.J. (author), Kruisdijk, E. (author), van Breukelen, B.M. (author)Irrigation with surface water carrying plant pathogens poses a risk for agriculture. Managed aquifer recharge enhances fresh water availability while simultaneously it may reduce the risk of plant diseases by removal of pathogens during aquifer passage. We compared the transport of three plant pathogenic bacteria with Escherichia coli WR1 as...journal article 2022
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van Beek, Janko (author), Teesing, Gwen (author), Oude Munnink, Bas B. (author), Meima, Abraham (author), Vriend, Henrike J. (author), Elzakkers, Jessica (author), de Graaf, Miranda (author), Langeveld, J.G. (author), Medema, G.J. (author)An outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant (Pango lineage B.1.1.7) was detected at a primary school (School X) in Lansingerland, the Netherlands, in December 2020. The outbreak was studied retrospectively, and population-based screening was used to assess the extent of virus circulation and decelerate transmission. Cases were SARS-CoV-2...journal article 2022
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Paraskevopoulos, S. (author), Smeets, Patrick (author), Tian, X. (author), Medema, G.J. (author)Health risk assessment of environmental exposure to pathogens requires complete and up to date knowledge. With the rapid growth of scientific publications and the protocolization of literature reviews, an automated approach based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques could help extract meaningful information from the literature and make...journal article 2022
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Seis, W.A.A. (author), Rouault, Pascale (author), Miehe, Ulf (author), ten Veldhuis, Marie-claire (author), Medema, G.J. (author)Norovirus infections are among the major causes of acute gastroenteritis worldwide. In Germany, norovirus infections are the most frequently reported cause of gastroenteritis, although only laboratory confirmed cases are officially counted. The high infectivity and environmental persistence of norovirus, makes the virus a relevant pathogen...journal article 2022
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Bicudo, Bruno (author), Van Der Werff, Bart Jan (author), Medema, G.J. (author), van Halem, D. (author)Electrochemical water treatment is gaining increasing popularity due to its wide range of potential applications, its decreasing costs, and its suitability as a decentralized treatment alternative, but mainly due to it being considered a "green technology". In the field of municipal wastewater treatment, the use of iron electrocoagulation (Fe...journal article 2022
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- Haramoto, Eiji (author), Medema, G.J. (author), Meschke, John Scott (author), Petterson, Susan (author) contribution to periodical 2022
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Eisfeld, R.C.M. (author), Schijven, Jack F. (author), Kastelein, Pieter (author), van Breukelen, B.M. (author), Medema, G.J. (author), Velstra, Jouke (author), Teunis, Peter F. M. (author), van der Wolf, Jan M. (author)Ralstonia solanacearum is the causative agent of bacterial wilt of potato and other vegetable crops. Contaminated irrigation water contributes to the dissemination of this pathogen but the exact concentration or biological threshold to cause an infection is unknown. In two greenhouse experiments, potted potato plants (Solanum tuberosum) were...journal article 2022
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Ahmad, J.I. (author), Dignum, Marco (author), Liu, G. (author), Medema, G.J. (author), van der Hoek, J.P. (author)Drinking water distribution systems (DWDSs) have been thoroughly studied, but the concept of thermal energy recovery from DWDSs is very new and has been conceptualized in the past few years. Cold recovery results in a temperature increase of the drinking water. Its effects on drinking water quality and biofilm development are unclear. Hence, we...journal article 2021
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Bicudo, Bruno (author), van Halem, D. (author), Trikannad, S.A. (author), Ferrero, Giuliana (author), Medema, G.J. (author)In this paper we analyse the feasibility of low voltage iron electrocoagulation as a means of municipal secondary effluent treatment with a focus on removal of microbial indicators, Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria (ARB) and nutrients. A laboratory scale batch unit equipped with iron electrodes was used on synthetic and real secondary effluent...journal article 2021
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Calderon Franco, D. (author), Apoorva, Seeram (author), Medema, G.J. (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Weissbrodt, D.G. (author)Wastewater treatment is challenged by the continuous emergence of chemical and biological contaminants. Disinfection, advanced oxidation, and activated carbon technologies are accessible in high-income countries to suppress them. Low-cost, easily implementable, and scalable solutions are needed for sanitation across regions. We studied the...journal article 2021
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Chen, L. (author), Zhai, Y. (author), van der Mark, Ed (author), Liu, G. (author), van der Meer, Walter (author), Medema, G.J. (author)Slow sand filters (SSFs) are widely applied to treat potable water; the removal of contaminants (e.g., particles, organic matter, and microorganism) occurs primarily in the top layer. However, the development of the microbial community and its metabolic function is still poorly understood. In the present study, we analyzed the microbial...journal article 2021
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Sylvestre, Émile (author), Prévost, Michèle (author), Burnet, Jean Baptiste (author), Pang, Xiaoli (author), Qiu, Yuanyuan (author), Smeets, Patrick (author), Medema, G.J. (author), Hachad, Mounia (author), Dorner, Sarah (author)This study investigates short-term fluctuations in virus concentrations in source water and their removal by full-scale drinking water treatment processes under different source water conditions. Transient peaks in raw water faecal contamination were identified using in situ online β-D-glucuronidase activity monitoring at two urban drinking...journal article 2021
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Eisfeld, R.C.M. (author), van der Wolf, Jan M. (author), van Breukelen, B.M. (author), Medema, G.J. (author), Velstra, Jouke (author), Schijven, Jack F. (author)Managed aquifer recharge (MAR) can provide irrigation water and overcome water scarcity in agriculture. Removal of potentially present plant pathogens during MAR is essential to prevent crop diseases. We studied the die-off of three plant pathogenic bacteria in water microcosms with natural or filtered tile drainage water (TDW) at 10 and 25◦C...journal article 2021
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Chen, L. (author), Ling, Fangqiong (author), Bakker, Geo (author), Liu, Wen Tso (author), Medema, G.J. (author), van der Meer, W.G.J. (author), Liu, G. (author)Worldwide, it is common that the drinking water distribution systems (DWDSs) may be subjected to changes of supply water quality due to the needs of upgrading the treatment processes or switching the source water. However, the potential impacts of quality changed supply water on the stabilized ecological niches within DWDSs and the associated...journal article 2020
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Soliman, Mona Youssef Moawad (author), Medema, G.J. (author), Estrada Bonilla, B.A. (author), Brouns, S.J.J. (author), van Halem, D. (author)Cu and Ag have been used as bactericidal agents since ancient times, yet their antiviral capacity in water remains poorly understood. This study tested the effect of copper (Cu) and silver (Ag) on model RNA and DNA viruses MS2 and PhiX 174 in solution at pH 6–8. Cu caused MS2 inactivation with similar rates at pH 6 and 7 but was inert towards...journal article 2020