Sedimentation of free and attached Cryptosporidium oocysts and Giardia cysts in water

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 4460-4466

  Medema, G J ^a,b   Schets, F M ^a   Teunis, P F M ^a   Havelaar, A H ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b KIWA Ltd   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; ARTICLE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DENSITY; EFFLUENT; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARTICLE SIZE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SEWAGE TREATMENT;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0031734711     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.11.4460-4466.1998     Document Type: Article

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