Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 854: Diversity and Host Specificity Revealed by Biological Characterization and Whole Genome Sequencing of Bacteriophages Infecting Salmonella enterica Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11090854 Authors: Fong Tremblay Delaquis Goodridge Levesque Moineau Suttle Wang Phages infecting members of the opportunistic human pathogen, Salmonella enterica, are widespread in natural environments and offer a potential source of agents that could be used...
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 857: Highly Divergent Genetic Variants of Soricid-Borne Altai Virus (Hantaviridae) in Eurasia Suggest Ancient Host-Switching Events Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11090857 Authors: Kang Gu Yashina Cook Yanagihara With the recent discovery of genetically distinct hantaviruses (family Hantaviridae) in shrews (order Eulipotyphla, family Soricidae), the once-conventional view that rodents (order Rodentia) served as the primordial reservoir hosts now appears...
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 853: Functional Domains of the Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Tegument Protein pUL37: The Amino Terminus is Dispensable for Virus Replication in Tissue Culture Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11090853 Authors: Grzesik Pryce Bhalala Vij Ahmed Etienne Perez McCaffery Desai The herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) UL37 gene encodes for a multifunctional component of the virion tegument, which is necessary for secondary envelopment in the cytoplasm...
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 852: African Swine Fever: Disease Dynamics in Wild Boar Experimentally Infected with ASFV Isolates Belonging to Genotype I and II Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11090852 Authors: Sánchez-Cordón Nunez Neimanis Wikström-Lassa Montoya Crooke Gavier-Widén After the re-introduction of African swine fever virus (ASFV) genotype II isolates into Georgia in 2007, the disease spread from Eastern to Western Europe and then jumped first up to Mongolian borders...
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 851: Equid alphaherpesvirus 1 from Italian Horses: Evaluation of the Variability of the ORF30, ORF33, ORF34 and ORF68 Genes Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11090851 Authors: Preziuso Sgorbini Marmorini Cuteri Equid alphaherpesvirus 1 (EHV-1) is an important pathogen of horses. It is spread worldwide and causes significant economic losses. The ORF33 gene has a conserved region that is often used as target in diagnostic PCR protocols. Single nucleotide point...
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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 850: Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) Reactivation Following Pharmacological Eradication of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Viruses doi: 10.3390/v11090850 Authors: Mariantonietta Pisaturo Margherita Macera Loredana Alessio Federica Calò Nicola Coppola The US Food and Drug Administration issued a black box warning related to the risk of reactivation of overt/occult hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection during direct acting-antivirals (DAA) treatment. This review evaluated...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1929: Acetaminophen Removal from Water by Microalgae and Effluent Toxicity Assessment by the Zebrafish Embryo Bioassay Water doi: 10.3390/w11091929 Authors: Carla Escapa Ricardo N. Coimbra Teresa Neuparth Tiago Torres Miguel M. Santos Marta Otero In this work, zebrafish embryo bioassays were performed to assess the efficiency of microalgae in the removal of acetaminophen from water. Chlorella sorokiniana (CS), Chlorella vulgaris (CV) and Scenedesmus...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1928: A Numerical Study of Fluid Flow in a Vertical Slot Fishway with the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Method Water doi: 10.3390/w11091928 Authors: Gorazd Novak Angelantonio Tafuni José M. Domínguez Matjaž Četina Dušan Žagar Fishways have a great ecological importance as they help mitigate the interruptions of fish migration routes. In the present work, the novel DualSPHysics v4.4 solver, based on the smoothed particle hydrodynamics method (SPH),...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1927: Investigation of Karst Spring Flow Cessation Using Grey System Models Water doi: 10.3390/w11091927 Authors: Yaru Guo Tian-Chyi Jim Yeh Yonghong Hao Karst aquifers are prominent sources of water worldwide; they store large amounts of water and are known for their beautiful springs. However, extensive groundwater development and climate variation has resulted in a decline in the flow of most karst springs; some have even dried up. In order to obtain a...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1926: Water Infrastructure Always In-The-Making: Distributing Water and Authority through the Water Supply Network in Moamba, Mozambique Water doi: 10.3390/w11091926 Authors: Luis Miguel Silva-Novoa Sanchez Jeltsje Sanne Kemerink-Seyoum Margreet Zwarteveen Using the concept of sociotechnical tinkering, this paper provides detailed empirical observations about the everyday practices of design, construction, operation, maintenance and use of a piped water supply...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1924: The Effect of Hydrological Connectivity on the Zooplankton Structure in Floodplain Lakes of a Regulated Large River (the Lower Vistula, Poland) Water doi: 10.3390/w11091924 Authors: Napiórkowski Bąkowska Mrozińska Szymańska Kolarova Obolewski The zooplankton community structure and diversity were analysed against the gradient of floodplain lakes connectivity and water level under different flood-pulse dynamics in the Vistula River. The...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1923: Examination of Nutrient Sources and Transport in a Catchment with an Audubon Certified Golf Course Water doi: 10.3390/w11091923 Authors: Emilio Grande Ate Visser Pamela Beitz Jean Moran Water bodies in the East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD), California, United States, provide aesthetic value and critical ecosystem services, but are often adversely affected by the activities and infrastructure of the intensely urban environment that surrounds...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1922: Pilot-Scale Evaluation of a Permeable Reactive Barrier with Compost and Brown Coal to Treat Groundwater Contaminated with Trichloroethylene Water doi: 10.3390/w11091922 Authors: S. Johana Grajales-Mesa Grzegorz Malina This study evaluates, under field conditions, the efficiency of a permeable reactive barrier (PRB) with compost and brown coal to remove trichloroethylene (TCE) (109 µg/L) from contaminated groundwater. Three stainless steel boxes...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1921: Potential of Water Hyacinth Infestation on Lake Tana, Ethiopia: A Prediction Using a GIS-Based Multi-Criteria Technique Water doi: 10.3390/w11091921 Authors: Dersseh Kibret Tilahun Worqlul Moges Dagnew Abebe Melesse Water hyacinth is a well-known invasive weed in lakes across the world and harms the aquatic environment. Since 2011, the weed has invaded Lake Tana substantially posing a challenge to the ecosystem services of the...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1925: A Continuous Drought Probability Monitoring System, CDPMS, Based on Copulas Water doi: 10.3390/w11091925 Authors: João Dehon Pontes Filho Maria Manuela Portela Ticiana Marinho de Carvalho Studart Francisco de Assis Souza Filho The standardized precipitation index (SPI), is one of the most used drought indices. However, it is difficult to use to monitor the ongoing drought characteristics because it cannot be expeditiously related to precipitation...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1918: Modeling Sugar Beet Responses to Irrigation with AquaCrop for Optimizing Water Allocation Water doi: 10.3390/w11091918 Authors: Margarita Garcia-Vila Rodrigo Morillo-Velarde Elias Fereres Process-based crop models such as AquaCrop are useful for a variety of applications but must be accurately calibrated and validated. Sugar beet is an important crop that is grown in regions under water scarcity. The discrepancies and uncertainty in past published calibrations,...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1919: Water Brokers: Exploring Urban Water Governance through the Practices of Tanker Water Supply in Accra Water doi: 10.3390/w11091919 Authors: Alba Bruns Bartels Kooy Accra, the capital city of Ghana, is characterized by limited networked supply, heterogeneous water providers, and various forms of provision. In this paper, we explore how the people delivering water through water tankers shape the distribution of water across the city. Drawing on...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1917: Implementation of a Full Momentum Conservative Approach in Modelling Flow Through Tidal Structures Water doi: 10.3390/w11091917 Authors: Nejc Čož Reza Ahmadian Roger A. Falconer Understanding the impact of various hydraulic structures, such as coastal reservoirs and tidal range impoundments, has been one of the key challenges of hydro–environmental engineering in recent years. Over the last half-century, several proposals for tidal range schemes...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1920: Analysis of the Effects of High Precipitation in Texas on Rainfed Sorghum Yields Water doi: 10.3390/w11091920 Authors: Sharma Kannan Cook Pokhrel McKenzie Most of the recent studies on the consequences of extreme weather events on crop yields are focused on droughts and warming climate. The knowledge of the consequences of excess precipitation on the crop yield is lacking. We attempted to fill this gap by estimating reductions in rainfed grain...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1916: Temporal and Spatial Characteristics of Precipitation and Temperature in Punjab, Pakistan Water doi: 10.3390/w11091916 Authors: Nawaz Li Chen Guo Wang Nawaz Identifying the changes in precipitation and temperature at a regional scale is of great importance for the quantification of climate change. This research investigates the changes in precipitation and surface air temperature indices in the seven irrigation zones of Punjab Province...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1915: Physically Based Estimation of Rainfall Thresholds Triggering Shallow Landslides in Volcanic Slopes of Southern Italy Water doi: 10.3390/w11091915 Authors: Fusco De Vita Mirus Baum Allocca Tufano Di Clemente Calcaterra On the 4th and 5th of March 2005, about 100 rainfall-induced landslides occurred along volcanic slopes of Camaldoli Hill in Naples, Italy. These started as soil slips in the upper substratum of incoherent and welded...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1914: Characteristics and Drivers of Reference Evapotranspiration in Hilly Regions in Southern China Water doi: 10.3390/w11091914 Authors: Liu Liu Chen Labat Li Bian Ding This paper has adopted related meteorological data collected by 69 meteorological stations between 1951 and 2013 to analyze changes and drivers of reference evapotranspiration (ET0) in the hilly regions located in southern China. Results show that: (1) ET0 in southern China’s...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1913: The Performance of Satellite-Based Actual Evapotranspiration Products and the Assessment of Irrigation Efficiency in Egypt Water doi: 10.3390/w11091913 Authors: Saher Ayyad Islam S. Al Zayed Van Tran Thi Ha Lars Ribbe Monitoring of crop water consumption, also known as actual evapotranspiration (ETa), is crucial for the prudent use of limited freshwater resources. Remote-sensing-based algorithms have become a popular approach for providing spatio-temporal...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1911: Evaluation of MOD16 Algorithm over Irrigated Rice Paddy Using Flux Tower Measurements in Southern Brazil Water doi: 10.3390/w11091911 Authors: Vanessa de Arruda Souza Débora Regina Roberti Anderson Luis Ruhoff Tamíres Zimmer Daniela Santini Adamatti Luis Gustavo G. de Gonçalves Marcelo Bortoluzzi Diaz Rita de Cássia Marques Alves Osvaldo L. L. de Moraes Evapotranspiration (ET) is an important component of the hydrological cycle. Understanding...
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Water, Vol. 11, Pages 1912: Adsorptive Removal of Iron and Manganese from Groundwater Samples in Ghana by Zeolite Y Synthesized from Bauxite and Kaolin Water doi: 10.3390/w11091912 Authors: Bright Kwakye-Awuah Baah Sefa-Ntiri Elizabeth Von-Kiti Isaac Nkrumah Craig Williams Ground water samples from residential homes in three Regions of Ghana: Central, Greater Accra and Ashanti, were analyzed for iron and manganese contamination. The samples were exposed to characterized zeolite...
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