Municipal wastewater treatment plants as removal systems and environmental sources of human-virulent microsporidian spores

Parasitology Research

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 595-603

  Cheng, Hui Wen A ^a   Lucy, Frances E ^a   Graczyk, Thaddeus K ^a,b   Broaders, Michael A ^a   Mastitsky, Sergey E ^c  

^a Atlantic Technological University Sligo   (Ireland)

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

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOSOLID; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFLUENT; ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENCEPHALITOZOON HELLEM; ENCEPHALITOZOON INTESTINALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCYTOZOON; IRELAND; MICROSPORIDIAN SPORE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGEN LOAD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SLUDGE TREATMENT; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCYTOZOON; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; IRELAND; SEASONS; SEWAGE; SPORES, FUNGAL; TEMPERATURE; WATER PURIFICATION;

ENCEPHALITOZOON HELLEM; ENCEPHALITOZOON INTESTINALIS; ENTEROCYTOZOON BIENEUSI;

EID: 80052336843     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-011-2291-x     Document Type: Article

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