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A detailed investigation was conducted into the application of an isothermal nucleic acid amplification procedure, LAMP, in conjunction with components of conventional procedure to determine ability to simplify water processing for monitoring Cryptosporidium and Giardia in surfac…
Matched terms: giardia Semantic similarity: 0.72
Background Giardia and Cryptosporidium are common parasitic diarrhea agents of children contributing to childhood morbidity and mortality in developing countries. Major risk factors, based on the international literature, are expected to include domestic animals, fresh vegetable…
Matched terms: giardia Semantic similarity: 0.725
Background: Raw (fresh) vegetables as part of a healthy diet is an important key to help boost immune health. However, they could also have a negative impact on humans. Vegetables, especially those that are consumed raw and not properly washed, have been the major way for the tra…
Matched terms: giardia Semantic similarity: 0.702
A rapid and inexpensive method is described for accurate and reproducible counting and manipulating small numbers of Cryptosporidium oocysts and Giardia cysts. From a suspension of oocysts or cysts at concentration from 1000 to 5000/mL (1–5/μL), replicate 5 μL droplets are micro…
Matched terms: giardia Semantic similarity: 0.704
Analysis of water samples for Cryptosporidium oocysts and Giardia cysts is a specialised and demanding pursuit. Understanding and evaluating data resulting from such analyses is equally specialised and complicated by the most common result—not finding any of the target organisms.…
Matched terms: giardia Semantic similarity: 0.694