Evaluating cryptosporidium and giardia concentrations in combined sewer overflow

Journal of Water and Health

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 157-165

  Arnone, Russell D ^a   Walling, Joyce Perdek ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Combined sewer overflow; Cryptosporidium; Giardia; U.S. EPA method 1623

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; RAIN; STORM WATER;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PATHOGEN; PROTOZOAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEWAGE; STORMWATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOSPORE; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES MICROFLORA; GIARDIA; HEALTH HAZARD; INDICATOR ORGANISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PLANNING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SANITATION; SEWER; STREPTOCOCCUS; URBAN AREA; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER LOADING; WATER SAMPLING; WATER TREATMENT;

MILWAUKEE; NORTH AMERICA; PENNSYLVANIA; PITTSBURGH; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS; GIARDIA; PROTOZOA; STREPTOCOCCUS;

ANIMALS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; GIARDIA; GIARDIASIS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; PENNSYLVANIA; SEWAGE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER PURIFICATION; WATER SUPPLY; WISCONSIN;

EID: 33745245731     PISSN: 14778920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/WH.2006.0013     Document Type: Article

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