Quantification of Cryptosporidium parvum in anaerobic digesters treating manure by (reverse-transcription) quantitative real-time PCR, infectivity and excystation tests

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 195-202

  Garces G ^a   Effenberger, M ^b   Najdrowski, M ^c   Wackwitz, C ^c   Gronauer, A ^b   Wilderer, P A ^a   Lebuhn, M ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Institute of Agricultural Engineering   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cryptosporidium parvum; DNA; Hygiene; Manure; MRNA; Quantitative real time PCR

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; BIOREACTORS; CELLS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DNA;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTERS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; EXCYSTATION TESTS; OOCYSTS; THERMOPHILIC TREATMENT;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; MESSENGER RNA; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; BIOREACTORS; CELLS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DNA; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; DNA; MANURE; PROTOZOAN; RNA;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DNA CONTENT; DNA EXTRACTION; MANURE; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PARASITOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REACTOR; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANAEROBIOSIS; ANIMALS; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BIOREACTORS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MANURE; OOCYSTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM;

EID: 33745119063     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2006.250     Document Type: Article

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