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Abstract
Listeria monocytogenes was isolated from a sewage treatment plant in Baghdad, Iraq, at all stages of treatment. The treatment processes did not yield a sewage sludge cake or a final discharge free of listerias. The agricultural practice of using such sewage products as fertilizers could become a route of spreading the organism in Iraq, particularly by infecting animals that consume vegetation in fields spread with such sewage. Dewatering of sewage reduced the number of L. monocytogenes but long periods of exposure to sun would be needed to obtain a 'safe' sewage sludge cake.Entities:
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Year: 1986 PMID： 3086271 DOI： 10.1111/j.1365-2672.1986.tb01080.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Appl Bacteriol ISSN： 0021-8847