id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-312431-de7zhswl Ganesh, Atheesha Detecting Virusā€Like Particles from the Umgeni River, South Africa 2013-08-30 .txt text/plain 7112 376 48 These results indicate the potential of viruses in the water samples especially from the lower catchment areas of the Umgeni River to infect human hosts throughout the year. It is well recognised that monitoring the presence of enteric viruses could be challenging due to the relatively low level of infectious viral particles towards the respective host species and small viral particle size existing in environmental waters, thus making it essential to start with a large water sample volume and concentrate it to several orders of magnitude [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] . The present study was conducted to optimise procedures to extract and enumerate indigenous virus-like particles (VLPs) and to determine the community structures and infectivity of these viruses from river water. Canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) was used to reveal the association amongst the bacteriophages, VLPs and the physical and chemical water quality variables, which were measured from the same sites and seasons in concurrent studies performed in this laboratory [46] , with a view to defining the significant variables accountable for the observed spatial and temporal distribution of the communities. ./cache/cord-312431-de7zhswl.txt ./txt/cord-312431-de7zhswl.txt