Detection of Toxoplasma gondii oocysts in different water resources by Loop Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP)

Acta Tropica

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 231-236

  Gallas Lindemann, Carmen ^a,b   Sotiriadou, Isaia ^a   Mahmoodi, Mohammad Reza ^a,c   Karanis, Panagiotis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b LINEG Center of Laboratory   (Germany)

^c GUILAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Drinking water; Groundwater Germany; LAMP; Surface water; Toxoplasma gondii; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM SULFATE; DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER; PROTOZOAL DNA; SURFACE WATER; TAP WATER;

DNA; DRINKING WATER; GROUNDWATER; HEALTH RISK; PUBLIC HEALTH; SURFACE WATER; WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY; WATER RESOURCE;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISINFECTION; DNA EXTRACTION; EFFLUENT; FILTRATION; FLOCCULATION; FLUID INTAKE; GERMANY; HEALTH HAZARD; LOOP MEDIATED ISOTHERMAL AMPLIFICATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PUBLIC HEALTH; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SAMPLING; WATER SUPPLY;

DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GERMANY; GROUNDWATER; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; OOCYSTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOXOPLASMA; WASTE WATER; WATER; WATER QUALITY;

GERMANY; LOWER RHINE BASIN; RHINE BASIN;

TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 84871686346     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2012.10.007     Document Type: Article

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