The number of copies of blaCTX-M detected in phage DNA in sewage ranged from 1.5 to 3 log10 units, while fewer than one log10 units were still detected in one ml of river water (Figure 4).
"In terms of phosphorus, much of the water is in the raw-sewage range, and in terms of nitrates, it was in the swine effluent range — like being right downstream from a pig farm," he said.
Quantification limits of the analytical procedure for 500 ml of sewage water ranged from 20 to 50 ng/l.
Levels of PCDD/F in municipal sewage sludge ranged from 0.0005 to 8,300 pg toxic equivalents (TEQ /g.
In our study, the percentage of HAV-positive sewage samples, ranging from 21% prior to the epidemic to 27% during the epidemic, is probably consistent with the classification of Italy as a country with low/intermediate HAV endemicity.
This is surprising because it is well documented that sewage contains a range of contaminants that individually are known stressors of coral reef ecosystems.
In general, phenanthrene, fluoranthene and pyrene contribute the largest portion of the total PAHs exposure (e.g. among sewage workers they ranged from 43%, 15%, and 12%; respectively).
In contrast those genes found in Tiberius but not HD100, commonly had BLAST top-hits from aquatic and marine bacterial sources, but not from E. coli and Salmonella, which are experimentally documented by Bonadonna and co-workers [ 7] to be in the River Tiber, as sewage pollutants, in ranges from 10 - 10 ml-1.
He is still a reporter, he says, applying the hard news skills honed on fires and murders and politics, to issues that now range from sewage to geophysics.
At the same time, he feels he has been let down by the Americans, who among other things canceled a $15 million project to build what would have been Baghdad's first sanitary landfill and are behind on a range of sewage and water projects.
