Expertin

Ao. Univ.-Prof.in Dr.in Regina Sommer

• Österreichischer Hygiene-Preis 1992
• Österreichischer Hygiene-Preis 2000 
• Telford Premium Award 2016 (best publication 2015)
  Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE Publishing), London, UK
• Lifetime Achievement Award IUVA (International UV Association)
  2017, Dubrovnik, Croatia

• Calgua, B., Carratalà, A., Guerrero-Latorre, L., de Abreu Corrêa, A., Kohn, T., Sommer, R. & Girones, R. 2014, "UVC Inactivation of dsDNA and ssRNA Viruses in Water: UV Fluences and a qPCR-Based Approach to Evaluate Decay on Viral Infectivity", Food and Environmental Virology.

Cervero-Aragó, S., Sommer, R. & Araujo, R.M. 2014, "Effect of UV irradiation (253.7nm) on free Legionella and Legionella associated with its amoebae hosts", Water research, vol. 67, pp. 299-309.

• Dombrowsky, M., Kirschner, A. & Sommer, R. 2013, "PVC-piping promotes growth of Ralstonia pickettii in dialysis water treatment facilities", Water Science and Technology, vol. 68, no. 4, pp. 929-933.
• Mayer, R.E., Vierheilig, J., Egle, L., Reischer, G.H., Saracevic, E., Mach, R.L., Kirschner, A.K.T., Zessner, M., Sommer, R. & Farnleitner, A.H. 2015, "Automated sampling procedures supported by high persistence of bacterial fecal indicators and Bacteroidetes genetic microbial source tracking markers in municipal wastewater during short-term storage at 5°C", Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol. 81, no. 15, pp. 5134-5143.
• Riepl, M., Schauer, S., Knetsch, S., Holzhammer, E., Farnleitner, A.H., Sommer, R. & Kirschner, A.K.T. 2011, "Applicability of solid-phase cytometry and epifluorescence microscopy for rapid assessment of the microbiological quality of dialysis water", Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, vol. 26, no. 11, pp. 3640-3645.
• Ryzinska-Paier, G., Sommer, R., Haider, J.M., Knetsch, S., Frick, C., Kirschner, A.K.T. & Farnleitner, A.H. 2011, "Acid phosphatase test proves superior to standard phenotypic identification procedure for Clostridium perfringens strains isolated from water", Journal of microbiological methods, vol. 87, no. 2, pp. 189-194.
• Schaar, H., Sommer, R., Schürhagl, R., Yillia, P. & Kreuzinger, N. 2013, "Microorganism inactivation by an ozonation step optimized for micropollutant removal from tertiary effluent", Water Science and Technology, vol. 68, no. 2, pp. 311-318.
• Scheikl, U., Sommer, R., Kirschner, A., Rameder, A., Schrammel, B., Zweimüller, I., Wesner, W., Hinker, M. & Walochnik, J. 2014, "Free-living amoebae (FLA) co-occurring with legionellae in industrial waters", European Journal of Protistology, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 422-429.
• Stevenson, M.E., Blaschke, A.P., Toze, S., Sidhu, J.P.S., Ahmed, W., van Driezum, I.H., Sommer, R., Kirschner, A.K.T., Cervero-Aragó, S., Farnleitner, A.H. & Pang, L. 2015, "Biotin- and glycoprotein-coated microspheres as surrogates for studying filtration removal of Cryptosporidium parvum in a granular limestone aquifer medium", Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol. 81, no. 13, pp. 4277-4283.
• Vierheilig, J., Frick, C., Mayer, R.E., Kirschner, A.K.T., Reischer, G.H., Derx, J., Mach, R.L., Sommer, R. & Farnleitner, A.H. 2013, "Clostridium perfringens is not suitable for the indication of fecal pollution from ruminant wildlife but is associated with excreta from nonherbivorous animals and human sewage", Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol. 79, no. 16, pp. 5089-5092.