Occurrence of Giardia lamblia in recreational streams in Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland
| Autor: | Paul Svoboda, Melanie Wicki, Marcel Tanner |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Veterinary medicine
Sewage Fresh Water STREAMS Biology Microbial contamination medicine.disease_cause Biochemistry Microbiology fluids and secretions parasitic diseases medicine Escherichia coli Giardia lamblia Animals Feces General Environmental Science Bathing water business.industry digestive system diseases Pathogenic organism Recreation business Water Microbiology Enterococcus Switzerland |
| Zdroj: | Environmental research. 109(5) |
| ISSN: | 1096-0953 |
| Popis: | Little is known about the environmental occurrence of the pathogenic organism Giardia lamblia in Switzerland. To provide a better insight into the importance of G. lamblia, a cheap, effective and easy to handle detection method was validated and evaluated in a series of field studies. G. lamblia was detected in 97.5% of surface water samples taken from two streams (Birs and Ergolz) located in the canton Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland. Since higher numbers of G. lamblia cysts were found after waste water treatment plants, human wastes appeared to be an important source of contamination. A correlation of G. lamblia with Escherichia coli and enterococci was observed. However, a linear equation to predict the number of G. lamblia cysts, given a concentration of E. coli or enterococci, did not prove to be suitable (r-squared = 0.27; r-squared = 0.24). |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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