Survey for the presence of Naegleria fowleri Amebae in lake water used to cool reactors at a nuclear power generating plant

Parasitology Research

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 969-978

  Jamerson, Melissa ^a   Remmers, Kenneth ^b   Cabral, Guy ^a   Marciano Cabral, Francine ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Lake Anna Civic Association   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; LAKE WATER; MYCOTOXIN;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFECTION RISK; INVERTEBRATE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PH MEASUREMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; REACTOR; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRGINIA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ANNA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INVERTEBRATA; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI; PROTOZOA;

EID: 62949207778     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-008-1275-y     Document Type: Article

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