Open AccessBiofilms Reduce Solar Disinfection of Cryptosporidium parvum Oocysts
Author(s) -
E. A. Wolyniak DiCesare,
B. R. Hargreaves,
Kristen L. Jellison
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
applied and environmental microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.552
H-Index - 324
eISSN - 1070-6291
pISSN - 0099-2240
DOI - 10.1128/aem.08019-11
Subject(s) - cryptosporidium parvum , cryptosporidium , microbiology and biotechnology , biofilm , biology , apicomplexa , bacteria , protozoal disease , feces , genetics , immunology , malaria
Solar radiation reducesCryptosporidium infectivity. Biofilms grown from stream microbial assemblages inoculated with oocysts were exposed to solar radiation. The infectivity of oocysts attached at the biofilm surface and oocysts suspended in water was about half that of oocysts attached at the base of a 32-μm biofilm.
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