Interaction forces drive the environmental transmission of pathogenic protozoa

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 905-912

  Dumètre, Aurélien ^a   Aubert, Dominique ^b   Puech, Pierre Henri ^c   Hohweyer, Jeanne ^b   Azas, Nadine ^a   Villena, Isabelle ^b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL STABILITY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM SPP; DERJAGUIN-LANDAU-VERWEY-OVERBEEK THEORIES; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL MATRIXES; ENVIRONMENTAL PARTICLES; EXTERNAL CONDITIONS; GIARDIA; GIARDIA DUODENALIS; HUMAN INFECTION; HYDROPHOBIC FORCES; INTERACTION FORCES; MICRO-SCALES; MICROBIAL POLLUTION; MOLECULAR TOPOGRAPHY; OOCYSTS; PARASITE-; PATHOGENIC PROTOZOA; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PROTOZOAN PARASITES; PUBLIC HEALTH; REPULSIVE FORCES; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ADHESION; HYDROPHOBICITY; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

PROTOZOA;

COLLOID; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEALTH RISK; HYDROPHOBICITY; MICROSTRUCTURE; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PROTOZOAN; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ANIMAL; CELL ADHESION; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLLUSC; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PROTOZOAN SPORE; SHORT SURVEY; TOXOPLASMA;

ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HUMANS; MOLLUSCA; SPORES, PROTOZOAN; TOXOPLASMA;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; MOLLUSCA; PROTOZOA; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 84857089145     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.06488-11     Document Type: Short Survey

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