Brackish Water Benthic Shellfish (Corbicula japonica) as a Biological Indicator for Cryptosporidium parvum Oocysts in River Water

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 29-37

  Izumi, T ^a   Itoh, Y ^a   Yagita, K ^b   Endo, T ^b   Ohyama, T ^c  

^a HOKKAIDO INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; METAL; NITRITE; NITROGEN; RIVER WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; BENTHOS; CLAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORBICULA JAPONICA; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DENSITY GRADIENT; FECES ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; METAL EXTRACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHELLFISH; STAINING; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SAMPLING;

ANIMALS; BIVALVIA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; OOCYSTS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; BIVALVIA; CORBICULA; CORBICULA JAPONICA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; JAPONICA;

EID: 1642553598     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00128-003-0237-4     Document Type: Article

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