La Fauci V, Sindoni D, Grillo O C, Calimeri S, Lo Giudice D, Squeri R
Department of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Public Health R. de Blasi, University of Messina, Italy.
J Prev Med Hyg. 2010 Mar;51(1):28-30.
Samples of sewage from treatment plants at the "G. Martino" University Hospital of Messina (AOU) and that of Messina City Council were analysed to detect the hepatits E virus. Samples were taken on sewage entering and exiting the treatment plants on a monthly basis over a one-year period from both the hospital plant (24 samples) and the municipal plant (22 samples). All sewage samples were pretreated by ultrafiltraton and concentration and finally processed by the PCR method to amplify gene material. A total of three samples tested positive: two (8.33%) entering the AOU treatment plant and one (4.5%) entering the municipal plant while no cases of HEV were detected in samples of treated sewage. These findings confirm the presence of the virus in the city of Messina and showed that the two treatment plants to be working efficiently when tested.
对墨西拿“G. 马尔蒂诺”大学医院（AOU）和墨西拿市议会污水处理厂的污水样本进行了分析，以检测戊型肝炎病毒。在一年时间里，每月从医院污水处理厂（24个样本）和市政污水处理厂（22个样本）采集污水进入和流出处理厂时的样本。所有污水样本均经过超滤和浓缩预处理，最后采用聚合酶链反应（PCR）方法扩增基因物质。共有三个样本检测呈阳性：两个（8.33%）进入AOU处理厂，一个（4.5%）进入市政处理厂，而处理后的污水样本中未检测到戊型肝炎病毒病例。这些发现证实了墨西拿市存在该病毒，并表明这两个处理厂在测试时运行高效。
