Efficacy of the solar water disinfection method in turbid waters experimentally contaminated with Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts under real field conditions

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 620-627

  Gomez Couso H ^a   Fontan Sainz M ^a   Sichel, C ^b   Fernandez Ibanez P ^b   Ares Mazas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b PLATAFORMA SOLAR DE ALMERÍA CIEMAT   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cryptosporidium; Natural sunlight; PET bottles; SODIS; Turbid waters; Viability

Indexed keywords

POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE; WATER;

CYST; DISINFECTION; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FILTRATION; SOLAR RADIATION; TURBIDITY; WATER POLLUTION; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DISINFECTION; FILTRATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; SOIL; SOLAR WATER DISINFECTION; SUNLIGHT; TURBIDITY; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING; WATER TREATMENT;

ANIMALS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DISINFECTION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FRESH WATER; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; OOCYSTS; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; SUNLIGHT; TEMPERATURE; WATER PURIFICATION;

ALMERIA [ANDALUCIA]; ANDALUCIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; TABERNAS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM;

EID: 67650760554     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2009.02281.x     Document Type: Article

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