Recovery of Cryptosporidium oocysts from small and large volume water samples using a compressed foam filter system

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 318-322

  Sartory, D P ^a   Parton, A ^b   Parton, A C ^b   Roberts, J ^a   Bergmann, K ^b  

^a SEVERN TRENT WATER LTD   (United Kingdom)

^b Genera Technologies Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; FLOTATION; MICROFILTRATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; POLYPROPYLENES; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; WATER FILTRATION;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM OOCYSTS; FILTER SYSTEM; FOAM FILTERS; LARGE VOLUMES; OOCYSTS; OPEN-CELL; RIVER WATER SAMPLES; TAP-WATER SAMPLES; WATER SAMPLES;

RECOVERY;

CITRATE POTASSIUM; POLYPROPYLENE; RIVER WATER; TAP WATER;

BACTERIUM; FILTER; FOAM; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; FILTRATION; FOAM; MEMBRANE FILTER; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER TREATMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0031733159     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1472-765X.1998.00459.x     Document Type: Article

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