Cluster randomized controlled trial of the plastic BioSand water filter in Cambodia

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 722-728

  Stauber, C E ^a   Printy, E R ^b   McCarty, F A ^a   Liang, K R ^b   Sobsey, M D ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMBODIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTINUED USE; E. COLI; HEALTH IMPACT; HIGH RATE; INCIDENCE RATE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL POPULATION; SCALING-UP; WATER FILTERS;

DISEASE CONTROL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; WATER FILTRATION; WATER QUALITY;

POTABLE WATER;

CONCRETE; DRINKING WATER; PLASTIC;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIARRHEAL DISEASE; DRINKING WATER; FILTER; HEALTH IMPACT; INSTALLATION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RURAL AREA; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; BIOSAND WATER FILTER; CAMBODIA; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FILTER; HEALTH; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERFORMANCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL POPULATION; WATER QUALITY;

BIOREACTORS; CAMBODIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FILTRATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; SILICON DIOXIDE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER PURIFICATION; WATER SUPPLY;

CAMBODIA;

EID: 84855958721     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es203114q     Document Type: Article

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