Surface properties of Toxoplasma gondii oocysts and surrogate microspheres

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1185-1191

  Shapiro, Karen ^a   Largier, John ^a   Mazet, Jonna A K ^b   Bernt, William ^c   Ell, John R ^a   Melli, Ann C ^a   Conrad, Patricia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Particle Characterization Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL SEAWATERS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBONS; ESTUARINE HABITATS; ESTUARINE WATERS; MARINE WATERS; NEGATIVE CHARGES; OOCYSTS; SURFACE WETTABILITIES; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; ULTRA-PURE WATERS; WATER CONTACT ANGLES; WATERBORNE TRANSMISSIONS;

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); CONTACT ANGLE; DISSOLUTION; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; ESTUARIES; FIRE HAZARDS; FLOCCULATION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; HYDROPHILICITY; ORGANIC CARBON; SALINE WATER; SEAWATER; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TRACE ANALYSIS; WATER TREATMENT;

MICROSPHERES;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ELECTROKINESIS; HEALTH RISK; PATHOGEN; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PROTOZOAN; SEAWATER; WATER POLLUTION; WATER TREATMENT; WETTABILITY;

ANIMALS; FRESH WATER; HUMANS; MICROSPHERES; OOCYSTS; SEAWATER; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TOXOPLASMA;

TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 59949091099     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02109-08     Document Type: Article

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