Decrease in Cryptosporidium parvum Oocyst Infectivity in Vitro by Using the Membrane Filter Dissolution Method for Recovering Oocysts from Water Samples

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 3309-3313

  Carreno, Ramon A ^a,b   Pokorny, Nicholas J ^b   Weir, Susan C ^b   Lee, Hung ^b   Trevors, Jack T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE; CELLULOSE ACETATE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; WATER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CELL LINE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; FILTRATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELLULOSE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; FILTRATION; HUMANS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; WATER;

EID: 0035403615     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.7.3309-3313.2001     Document Type: Article

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