Recovery of waterborne Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts by freshwater benthic clams (Corbicula fluminea)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 427-430

  Graczyk, Thaddeus K ^a,c   Fayer, Ronald ^d   Cranfield, Michael R ^b,c   Conn, David Bruce ^e  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Baltimore Zoo   (United States)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^e BERRY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; CLAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; FECES ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PREVALENCE; SEDIMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING;

ANIMALIA; BIVALVIA; CORBICULA FLUMINEA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0031938209     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.2.427-430.1998     Document Type: Article

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