title: Human enteropathogen load in activated sewage sludge and corresponding sewage sludge end products.
abstract: This study demonstrated a significant reduction in the concentrations of Cryptosporidium parvum and Cryptosporidium hominis oocysts, Giardia lamblia cysts, and spores of human-virulent microsporidia in dewatered and biologically stabilized sewage sludge cake end products compared to those of the respective pathogens in the corresponding samples collected during the sludge activation process.
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Division of Environmental Health Engineering, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. tgraczyk@jhsph.edu
authors.forename: Thaddeus K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Graczyk
authors.forename: Frances E
authors.initials: FE
authors.lastname: Lucy
authors.forename: Leena
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tamang
authors.forename: Allen
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Miraflor
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015169:Colony Count, Microbial; D016785:Cryptosporidium parvum / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D016829:Giardia lamblia / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006801:Humans; D016814:Microsporidia / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D010270:Parasite Egg Count; D012722:Sewage / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000469:parasitology*; D013172:Spores, Fungal / Q000302:isolation & purification; D014871:Water Microbiology; D018508:Water Purification
chemical_list: D012722:Sewage