Survey for the presence of specific free-living amoebae in cooling waters from Belgian power plants

Parasitology Research

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1249-1256

  Behets, Jonas ^a   Declerck, Priscilla ^a   Delaedt, Yasmine ^a   Verelst, Lieve ^b   Ollevier, Frans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b LABORELEC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING WATER;

AMOEBA; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; ENZYME ELECTROPHORESIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEALTH SURVEY; HEAT TOLERANCE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; ISOENZYME ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WATER SAMPLING;

AMOEBA; ANIMALS; BELGIUM; POWER PLANTS; WATER;

NAEGLERIA FOWLERI;

EID: 33947411984     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-006-0399-1     Document Type: Article

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