Protozoal agents: What are the dangers for the public water supply?

Annual Review of Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue , 1997, Pages 329-340

  Steiner, Ted S ^a   Thielman, Nathan M ^a   Guerrant, Richard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryptosporidium; Cyclospora; Diarrhea; Entamoeba; Giardia; Waterborne illness

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

CAUSE OF DEATH; CHLORINATION; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; CYCLOSPORA CAYETANENSIS; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIARRHEA; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FILTRATION; GIARDIA; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; INFANT MORTALITY; OOCYST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; SAFETY; SURVIVAL; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

ANIMALS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; ENTAMOEBIASIS; GIARDIASIS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; HUMANS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 0031048349     PISSN: 00664219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.med.48.1.329     Document Type: Review

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