Transport of Cryptosporidium oocysts in porous media: Role of straining and physicochemical filtration

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 38, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 5932-5938

  Tufenkji, Nathalie ^a   Miller, Garrett F ^a   Ryan, Joseph N ^b   Harvey, Ronald W ^c   Elimelech, Menachem ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; IONIC STRENGTH; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

RIVERBANK FILTRATION; SOIL INFILTRATION;

ELECTROSTATICS;

FILTRATION; INFILTRATION; MICROORGANISM; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POROUS MEDIUM;

ARTICLE; COLUMN CHROMATOGRAPHY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FILTRATION; IONIC STRENGTH; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; POROSITY; TRANSPORT KINETICS; TRANSPORT MEDIUM;

ANIMALS; CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; FILTRATION; MICROSPHERES; OOCYSTS; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER PURIFICATION;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM;

EID: 8544240161     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es049789u     Document Type: Article

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