Rapid detection and enumeration of Giardia lamblia cysts in water samples by immunomagnetic separation and flow cytometric analysis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 5420-5427

  Keserue, Hans Anton ^a,b,c   Füchslin, Hans Peter ^a   Egli, Thomas ^a,c  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b FEDERAL OFFICE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND SIGNALS; CONVENTIONAL DETECTION; DETECTION APPROACH; DETECTION LIMITS; FLOW-CYTOMETRIC ANALYSIS; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; INTESTINAL PARASITES; MICROBEADS; NATURALLY OCCURRING; RAPID DETECTION; RAPID SCREENING; RE-SUSPENSION; RED FLUORESCENCE; SPIKED SAMPLES; WATER SAMPLES; WATER-BORNE PATHOGENS;

FLUORESCENCE; PROTOZOA; SURFACE WATERS; WASTEWATER;

POTABLE WATER;

DRINKING WATER; WATER;

CYST; DETECTION METHOD; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DRINKING WATER; DYE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; FOOD; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MICROSCOPY; PARASITE; PATHOGENICITY; PROTOZOAN; SURFACE WATER; WASTEWATER;

AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; SEWAGE;

AQUATIC ORGANISMS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DRINKING WATER; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; SEWAGE; WATER;

GIARDIA INTESTINALIS;

EID: 79961076740     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00416-11     Document Type: Article

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