Emerging waterborne pathogens: Can we kill them all?

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 175-180

  Nwachcuku, Nena ^a   Gerba, Charles P ^b  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

CCL; Contaminant Candidate List; SARS; severe acute respiratory syndrome; ultraviolet; UV

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DEMOGRAPHY; DISINFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FILTRATION; GENOME; HUMAN; MICROSPORIDA; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE MULTIFOCAL LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; REVIEW; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SEWAGE; VIRUS; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS; VIRUS DISEASES; WATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROSPORIDIA;

EID: 2942582614     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2004.04.010     Document Type: Review

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