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With enteric viruses as emerging waterborne pathogens improved methods for detection and quantification in environmental samples are needed. Adelaide Almeida and colleagues employed ultracentrifugation with epifluorescence microscopy in this increasingly important area of analysis.

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Ultracentrifugation as a direct method to concentrate viruses in environmental waters: virus-like particle enumeration as a new approach to determine the efficiency of recovery

Catarina Prata, Andreia Ribeiro, Ângela Cunha, Newton. C. M. Gomes and Adelaide Almeida
J. Environ. Monit., 2012, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C1EM10603A, Paper