Propagation of human enteropathogens in constructed horizontal wetlands used for tertiary wastewater treatment

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 4531-4538

  Graczyk, Thaddeus K ^a,b   Lucy, Frances E ^b,c   Tamang, Leena ^a   Mashinski, Yessika ^a   Broaders, Michael A ^b   Connolly, Michelle ^b   Cheng, Hui Wen A ^b  

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

^b Atlantic Technological University   (Ireland)

^c Environmental Services Ireland   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM SPP; DRINKING WATER; EXPONENTIAL INCREASE; FREE-SURFACE FLOW; GIARDIA DUODENALIS; HUMAN POPULATION; IRELAND; MICROSPORIDIA; PATHOGEN REMOVAL; PATHOGENIC MICROORGANISMS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RE-CLAIMED WATER; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TERTIARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WASTEWATER SAMPLES;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; EFFLUENTS; GAMMA RADIOGRAPHY; HEALTH RISKS; MICROORGANISMS; PATHOGENS; POTABLE WATER; SURFACE WATERS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WETLANDS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

DRINKING WATER; SURFACE WATER;

BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; HOMINID; PATHOGEN; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SUBSURFACE FLOW; SURFACE WATER; VIABILITY; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; CONSTRUCTED SUBSURFACE FLOW WETLAND; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM MELEAGRIDIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM MURIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; EFFLUENT; ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENCEPHALITOZOON HELLEM; ENTEROCYTOZOON; FREE SURFACE FLOW WETLAND; GIARDIA DUODENALIS; IRELAND; NONHUMAN; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SAMPLING; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; FRESH WATER; GIARDIA; HUMANS; IRELAND; MICROSPORIDIA; WATER PURIFICATION; WETLANDS;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM HOMINIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM MELEAGRIDIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM MURIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; ENCEPHALITOZOON HELLEM; ENTEROCYTOZOON BIENEUSI; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; MICROSPORIDIA;

EID: 67649588292     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02873-08     Document Type: Article

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