Human-virulent microsporidian spores in solid waste landfill leachate and sewage sludge, and effects of sanitization treatments on their inactivation

Parasitology Research

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 569-575

  Graczyk, Thaddeus K ^a   Kacprzak, Malgorzata ^b   Neczaj, Ewa ^b   Tamang, Leena ^a   Graczyk, Halshka ^c   Lucy, Frances E ^d   Girouard, Autumn S ^a  

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

^b CZESTOCHOWA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Atlantic Technological University Sligo   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENCEPHALITOZOON HELLEM; ENCEPHALITOZOON INTESTINALIS; ENTEROCYTOZOON; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; LANDFILL LEACHATE; MICROSPORIDIAN SPORE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; SLUDGE; SOLID WASTE; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; ULTRASOUND; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; DISINFECTION; ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENTEROCYTOZOON; HUMANS; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROWAVES; OXIDES; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SEWAGE; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SPORES, FUNGAL; VIRULENCE;

ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENCEPHALITOZOON HELLEM; ENCEPHALITOZOON INTESTINALIS; ENTEROCYTOZOON BIENEUSI;

EID: 34547121427     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-007-0515-x     Document Type: Article

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