Decrease in Cryptosporidium parvum Oocyst Infectivity In Vitro by Using the Membrane Filter Dissolution Method for Recovering Oocysts from Water Samples
- 1 July 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Applied and Environmental Microbiology
- Vol. 67 (7) , 3309-3313
- https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.67.7.3309-3313.2001
Abstract
Exposure of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts to solutions used for cellulose acetate membrane (CAM) dissolution filtration reduced their infectivity in HCT-8 cells. Ethanol (95% [vol/vol] and 70% [vol/vol]) alone and short exposure times to acetone decreased infectivity. These findings contrast with similar experiments using excystation assays and infectivity in mice.Keywords
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