Evaluation of the UV disinfection process in bacteria and amphizoic amoebae inactivation

Water Science and Technology: Water Supply

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 285-291

  Maya, C ^a   Beltran N ^a   Jimenez B ^a   Bonilla, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Amphizoic amoebae; Inactivation; Indicators; Pathogenic bacteria; UV disinfection

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; DISINFECTION; IRRADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

LIGHT DISINFECTION;

WATER SUPPLY;

BACTERIUM; DISINFECTION; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AMOEBA; ANIMAL MODEL; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIOPHAGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; CYST; DISINFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIA MURIS; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PROTOZOON; RADIATION DOSE; SALMONELLA TYPHI; TROPHOZOITE; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ANIMALIA; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; GIARDIA MURIS; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; PROTOZOA; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA TYPHI;

EID: 0041881893     PISSN: 16069749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/ws.2003.0074     Document Type: Conference Paper

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