| Literature DB >> 8595856 |
E K Black1, G R Finch, R Taghi-Kilani, M Belosevic.
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In vitro excystation, vital dyes (4', 6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) and propidium iodide (PI), and infectivity in neonatal CD-1 mice were used to assess the viability of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts after chemical disinfection. In vitro excystation and DAPI/PI staining provided similar estimates of viability in bench-scale experiments, but both of these methods significantly overestimated the viability when compared with infectivity (Pr < or = 0.01). Infectivity was the most reliable measure of the viability of C. parvum oocysts following chemical disinfection.Entities:
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Year: 1996 PMID: 8595856 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1996.tb07987.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: FEMS Microbiol Lett ISSN: 0378-1097 Impact factor: 2.742