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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, January 2001, p. 179-184, Vol. 67, No. 1
0099-2240/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.1.179-184.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Human Adenoviruses and Coliphages in Urban Runoff-Impacted Coastal Waters of Southern California

Sunny Jiang,1,* Rachel Noble,2 and Weiping Chu1

Department of Environmental Analysis and Design, University of California, Irvine, California 92697,1 and Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, Westminster, California, 92683-52182

Received 9 August 2000/Accepted 17 October 2000

A nested-PCR method was used to detect the occurrence of human adenovirus in coastal waters of Southern California. Twenty- to forty-liter water samples were collected from 12 beach locations from Malibu to the border of Mexico between February and March 1999. All sampling sites were located at mouths of major rivers and creeks. Two ultrafiltration concentration methods, tangential flow filtration (TFF) and vortex flow filtration (VFF), were compared using six environmental samples. Human adenoviruses were detected in 4 of the 12 samples tested after nucleic acid extraction of VFF concentrates. The most probable number of adenoviral genomes ranged from 880 to 7,500 per liter of water. Coliphages were detected at all sites, with the concentration varying from 5.3 to 3332 PFU/liter of water. F-specific coliphages were found at 5 of the 12 sites, with the concentration ranging from 5.5 to 300 PFU/liter. The presence of human adenovirus was not significantly correlated with the concentration of coliphage (r = 0.32) but was significantly correlated (r = 0.99) with F-specific coliphage. The bacterial indicators (total coliforms, fecal coliforms, and enterococci) were found to exceed California recreational water quality daily limits at 5 of the 12 sites. However, this excess of bacterial indicators did not correlate with the presence of human adenoviruses in coastal waters. The results of this study call for both a reevaluation of our current recreational water quality standards to reflect the viral quality of recreational waters and monitoring of recreational waters for human viruses on a regular basis.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Environmental Analysis and Design, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697. Phone: (949) 824-5527. Fax: (949) 824-2056. E-mail: sjiang{at}uci.edu.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, January 2001, p. 179-184, Vol. 67, No. 1
0099-2240/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.1.179-184.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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