Human enteropathogen load in activated sewage sludge and corresponding sewage sludge end products

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2013-2015

  Graczyk, Thaddeus K ^a,d   Lucy, Frances E ^b   Tamang, Leena ^a   Miraflor, Allen ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Atlantic Technological University   (Ireland)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PATHOGENS; SEWAGE SLUDGE;

GIARDIA LAMBLIA CYSTS; HUMAN-VIRULENT MICROSPORIDIA; SLUDGE ACTIVATION;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; CYST; FLAGELLATE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PARASITE INTENSITY; SPORE;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DEWATERING; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS SPORE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; MICROSPORUM; NONHUMAN; OOCYST;

ANIMALS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HUMANS; MICROSPORIDIA; PARASITE EGG COUNT; SEWAGE; SPORES, FUNGAL; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER PURIFICATION;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; MICROSPORIDIA;

EID: 33947359887     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02412-06     Document Type: Article

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