Why the study?
Human enteric viruses cause gastrointestinal illness and contaminate environmental water through various routes, potentially playing a significant role in human health.
The study highlights the wide diversity of enteric viruses in environmental water in Chiang Mai, emphasizing the need for better wastewater management to prevent human infection.
Human enteric viruses are a major cause of gastrointestinal illness, and these viruses can be introduced into environmental water through various routes. Viral contamination in water could play a significant role in human health. This study demonstrated the prevalence of six different enteric viruses, adenovirus, astrovirus, enteroviruses, human parechovirus, rotavirus, and saffold virus, contaminating environmental water. We also analyzed the overall prevalence of other enteric viruses that were in this area, and the findings revealed a wide diversity of the enteric viruses contaminating environmental water. The data provide a better understanding of the epidemiologic importance of viral contamination of the water and highlight the need for better management of wastewater disposal and effective environmental water treatment to prevent the human population from infection.
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