Do iodine water purification tablets provide an effective barrier against Cryptosporidium parvum?

Military Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 83-86

  Starke, Jeffrey A ^a,b   Bowman, Dwight D ^c   Labare, Michael ^a   Fogarty, Elizabeth A ^d   Lucio Forster, Araceli ^c   Barbi, Joseph ^c   Jenkins, Michael B ^e   Pavlo, Mary ^a   Butkus, Michael A ^a  

^a UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY   (United States)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

^e AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE; PHOSPHATE; DISINFECTANT AGENT; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARMY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DISINFECTION; DOSE CALCULATION; INOCULATION; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITOSIS; TABLET; WATER MANAGEMENT; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; DRUG EFFECT; METHODOLOGY; MILITARY MEDICINE; PARASITOLOGY; SAFETY; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DISINFECTANTS; IODINE; MICE; MILITARY MEDICINE; SAFETY; TABLETS; UNITED STATES; WATER; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 15944401745     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.170.1.83     Document Type: Article

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