Editorial: Microbial Safety in Water Resources

Pei-Ying Hong¹, Timothy R Julian^{2

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4}, Muhammad Raihan Jumat¹

Affiliations

¹ Water Desalination and Reuse Center, Biological and Environmental Science & Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
² Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland.
³ Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland.
⁴ University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

Editorial

Pei-Ying Hong et al. Front Microbiol. 2018.

. 2018 Dec 10:9:3064.

doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.03064. eCollection 2018.

Pei-Ying Hong¹, Timothy R Julian^{2

3

4}, Muhammad Raihan Jumat¹

¹ Water Desalination and Reuse Center, Biological and Environmental Science & Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
² Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland.
³ Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland.
⁴ University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

No abstract available

Keywords: microbial contaminants; molecular methods; wastewater treatment; water quality; water reuse.

Comment on

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