Improvement of recoveries for the determination of protozoa Cryptosporidium and Giardia in water using method 1623

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 321-325

  Hu, Jiangyong ^a   Feng, Yaoyu ^a   Ong, Say Leong ^a   Ng, Wun Jern ^a   Song, Lianfa ^a   Tan, Xiaolan ^a   Chu, Xiaona ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cryptosporidium; Filtration; Giardia; Immunomagnetic separation; Recovery

Indexed keywords

SILICON DIOXIDE; TAP WATER; WATER;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; FILTRATION; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; FILTRATION; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; OOCYSTS; SILICON DIOXIDE; WATER;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; GIARDIA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 3242777640     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2004.04.013     Document Type: Article

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