Recovery of diverse microbes in high turbidity surface water samples using dead-end ultrafiltration

► Recovery of microbes in turbid water using dead-end hollow-fiber ultrafiltration. ► Monitored hydraulic characteristics of the method to study filter performance. ► Recovery efficiencies for parasites, bacteria and viruses were reliably over 50%. ► Dead-end ultrafiltration filtered 100 L of turbid surface water in 60 min.