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Aurélien Dumètre1, Caroline Le Bras, Maxime Baffet, Pascale Meneceur, J P Dubey, Francis Derouin, Jean-Pierre Duguet, Michel Joyeux, Laurent Moulin.
Abstract
Clinical toxoplasmosis in humans has been epidemiologically linked to the consumption of drinking water contaminated by Toxoplasma gondii oocysts. We evaluated killing of T. gondii oocysts after ultraviolet (UV) or ozone treatments by bioassay in mice and/or cell culture. A 4-log inactivation of the oocyst/sporozoite infectivity was obtained for UV fluences >20 mJ cm(-2). In contrast, oocysts were not inactivated by ozone with an exposure (Ct) up to 9.4 mg min l (-1) in water at 20 degrees C. In conclusion, UV treatment can be an effective disinfection method to inactivate T. gondii oocysts in drinking water, but ozone did not show promise in this research.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID: 18355965 DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2008.02.004
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Vet Parasitol ISSN: 0304-4017 Impact factor: 2.738