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Global investigation of the presence of adenovirus in different types of water resources: a systematic review

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Waterborne viruses such as adenoviruses cause major health problems in the world. Human adenoviruses are the second leading cause of childhood gastroenteritis worldwide. In recent years, the presence of the virus in aquatic resources has been shown in several studies. In this paper, the global presence of adenovirus in different types of water resources are reviewed through studying several surveys conducted in different countries worldwide. We designed one search study to collect the maximum number of related articles to this subject in international databases search engine via relevant keywords. After reviewing the articles, the most relevant ones were selected, and after classification and extracting the required information, they were reported in the tables presented in this study. In general, it was found that the highest rate of the presence of adenoviruses has been reported in sewage water, inlet, and outlet of the treatment plant while the lowest rate of the presence of adenovirus in the dam water. These findings demonstrate that treatment plant system has weakness in removing the adenovirus and are strongly recommended for treatment plants to use new and better protocols to remove this virus. In addition, appropriate diagnostic methods that combines molecular biological technique with infectivity assay should be implemented for detection of adenoviruses in water resources.

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    Iman Owliaee, Shahab Mahmoudvand & Farid Azizi Jalilian

  2. Research Center for Molecular Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran

    Mehran Khaledian, Shahab Mahmoudvand, Razieh Amini & Farid Azizi Jalilian

  3. Department of Food Safety, Nutrition, and Veterinary Public Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

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  4. Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

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Owliaee, I., Khaledian, M., Mahmoudvand, S. et al. Global investigation of the presence of adenovirus in different types of water resources: a systematic review. VirusDis. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13337-023-00857-4

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