Amoeba-related health risk in drinking water systems: Could monitoring of amoebae be a complementary approach to current quality control strategies?

Future Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 25-31

  Codony, Francesc ^a   Pérez, Leonardo Martn ^a   Adrados, Brbara ^a   Agust, Gemma ^a   Fittipaldi, Mariana ^a   Morat, Jordi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

amoeba; bacterial pathogen; contaminant candidate list; drinking water systems; quantitative PCR

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

ACUTE DIARRHEA; AMOEBA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); BACTEREMIA; BLOODY DIARRHEA; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CAMPYLOBACTER SPUTORUM; ENTEROPATHY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GASTROENTERITIS; HEALTH HAZARD; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; NONHUMAN; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PEPTIC ULCER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA; STOMACH CANCER; STOMACH DISEASE; TYPHOID FEVER; WATER CONTAMINATION;

AMOEBA; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; DRINKING WATER; FECES; HUMANS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84555197115     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: 17460921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fmb.11.139     Document Type: Review

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