Human infective potential of Cryptosporidium spp., Giardia duodenalis and Enterocytozoon bieneusi in urban wastewater treatment plant effluents

Journal of Water and Health

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 411-423

  Ma, Jiawen ^a   Feng, Yaoyu ^a   Hu, Yue ^a   Villegas, Eric N ^b   Xiao, Lihua ^c  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryptosporidium; Enterocytozoon bieneusi; Genotype; Giardia; Wastewater; Wwtp effluent

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE DIOXIDE; PROPIDIUM IODIDE; AZIDE; PROPIDIUM MONOAZIDE; WASTE WATER;

DISINFECTION; EFFLUENT; FECAL COLIFORM; FUNGUS; GENOTYPE; PATHOGEN; PROTOZOAN; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT; WATERBORNE DISEASE;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DISINFECTION; EFFLUENT; ENTEROCYTOZOON BIENEUSI; ENTEROCYTOZOON INFECTION; FECAL COLIFORM; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; GIARDIASIS; HUMAN; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STANDARD; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; CITY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROCYTOZOON; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; WASTE WATER;

CHINA;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; ENTEROCYTOZOON BIENEUSI; GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS;

AZIDES; CHINA; CITIES; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; ENTEROCYTOZOON; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; HUMANS; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROPIDIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WASTE WATER;

EID: 84974593899     PISSN: 14778920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wh.2016.192     Document Type: Article

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