[The necessity of including Cryptosporidium oocysts among indicators of epidemic safety of drinking water].
The paper provides evidence that Cryptosporidium oocysts should be included as an indicator of the epidemic safety of drinking water in Russia. This is evidenced by the fact that there a wide spread of cryptosporidiosis in animals and man, of its causative agent in the environment; large global outbursts of the infection; no sanitary and parasitological drinking water monitoring in of the country, the use of the parasitological indicator to assess the drinking water in some countries (USA, UK, Ukraine, etc.).
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Romanenko
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Sergiev
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Rakhmanin
D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D002648:Child; D003457:Cryptosporidiosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D003458:Cryptosporidium / Q000254:growth & development / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors; D012426:Russia; D014867:Water / Q000469:parasitology*; D014881:Water Supply / Q000592:standards*
D014867:Water