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  • Title: Improved method for recovery of bacteriophage from large volumes of water using negatively charged microporous filters.
    Author: Scott TM, Lukasik J, Farrah SR.
    Journal: Can J Microbiol; 2002 Apr; 48(4):305-10. PubMed ID: 12030702.
    Abstract:
    Current virus-recovery procedures using negatively charged microporous filters provide an inexpensive, reliable method for the recovery and detection of enteroviruses from water and wastewater; however, adjustment of the test samples to pH 3.5 to promote enterovirus adsorption results in significant inactivation of bacteriophage and an inability to simultaneously recover them from large volumes of water using this procedure. Procedures specifically designed for the detection of bacteriophage are currently in use but generally are only effective for small volumes of water. Positively charged filters can be used to recover both enteroviruses and bacteriophage from large volumes of water at neutral pH; however, the filters are expensive. The addition of manganese chloride to test solutions at pH 3.5 prior to filtration through negatively charged Filterite filters allowed for sampling of larger volumes of water by reducing the inactivation of bacteriophage and increasing the recovery of PRD1, MS2, and naturally isolated bacteriophage by a factor of four or five when compared with recoveries from solutions without MnCl2. This method provides an inexpensive, reliable alternative to large-volume bacteriophage recovery procedures that use positively charged filters at neutral pH.
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