Prevalence of parasitic contamination of raw vegetables in villages of Qazvin province, Iran

Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1025-1030

  Shahnazi, Mojtaba ^a   Jafari Sabet, Majid ^a,b  

^a QAZVIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b AJA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM HYPOCHLORITE; DETERGENT; HYPOCHLORITE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTEMISIA DRACUNCULUS; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BASIL; CENTRIFUGATION; CESTODE; CORIANDER; CRESS; CYST (RESTING STAGE); DICROCOELIUM; EGG PARASITOID; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA DISPAR; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD WASHING; FRUIT; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HELMINTH; HYMENOLEPIS; IMMERSION; IRAN; LARVA; LEEK; LETTUCE; MENTHA SPICATA; METAZOON; MICROSCOPY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; ONION; PARASITE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOSIS; PARSLEY; PLANT YIELD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; RADISH; RAW FOOD; SEDIMENT; TAENIA; TREMATODE; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; TRICHURIS; ULTRASOUND; VEGETABLE;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; ENTAMOEBA; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD PARASITOLOGY; GIARDIA; HELMINTHS; IRAN; LARVA; NEMATODA; OVUM; PARASITE EGG COUNT; RHABDITOIDEA; SOLUTIONS; VEGETABLES;

ALLIUM CEPA; ALLIUM PORRUM; ARTEMISIA DRACUNCULUS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CESTODA; CORIANDRUM SATIVUM; DICROCOELIUM DENDRITICUM; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA COLI; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; HYMENOLEPIS NANA; LACTUCA; MENTHA SPICATA; METAZOA; NEMATODA; OCIMUM; PETROSELINUM CRISPUM; PROTOZOA; RAPHANUS SATIVUS; RHABDITOIDEA; TAENIA; TREMATODA; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; VERMES;

EID: 77956413647     PISSN: 15353141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/fpd.2009.0477     Document Type: Article

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