The concentration of viruses in water using the tangential flow ultrafiltration. Recovery effectiveness in experimental conditions
Bigliardi, L.; Cesari, C.; Zoni, R.; Sansebastiano, G.E.
Annali di Igiene Medicina Preventiva e di Comunita 16(1-2): 281-289
2004
ISSN/ISBN: 1120-9135 PMID: 15554535 Document Number: 567877
Poliovirus 1 concentration tests were carried out in artificially contaminated water by tangential flow ultrafiltration with Polisulfone filters 100000 MWCO. The tests were performed in 1 and in 20 liters of waters. The filters were conditioned and eluted respectively with Beef extract 3% and with glicina 1% at pH 7 and pH 9. The recovery mean using Beef extract resulted properly good, about the 83% and comparable to percentages we obtained in previous works with filters in cellulose nitrate and Virosorb filters. The viral recovery was low using the glicina for conditioning and eluting the filters.