Alternative Immunofluorescent labeling of cryptosporidium parvum in water samples using semiconductor quantum dots

Water Environment Research

Volumn 80, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 725-731

  Lee, Lai Yoke ^a   Hu, Jiang Yong ^a   Ong, Say Leong ^a   Ng, How Yong ^a   Wong, Shih Wei ^a   Feng, Yaoyu ^a   Tan, Xiaolan ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cryptosporidium parvum; Immunofluorescent labels; Oocysts; Organic fluorophores; Quantum dot

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; BIOREACTORS; EFFLUENTS; FLUOROPHORES; NANOCRYSTALS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM OOCYSTS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENT LABELING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENT LABELS; MEMBRANE BIOREACTOR; OOCYSTS; ORGANIC FLUOROPHORES; SPIKED WATER SAMPLES;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

QUANTUM DOT;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PROTOZOAN; SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY;

ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; MICROFILTRATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR; TURBIDITY; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM;

EID: 49949094243     PISSN: 10614303     EISSN: 15547531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2175/106143008X276651     Document Type: Article

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