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Biofilms reduce solar disinfection of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts

Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2012) 78(12) 4522-4525
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.08019-11
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Solar radiation reduces Cryptosporidium 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. © 2012, American Society for Microbiology.

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DiCesare, E. A. W., Hargreaves, B. R., & Jellison, K. L. (2012). Biofilms reduce solar disinfection of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 78(12), 4522–4525. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.08019-11

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