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Cyclospora cayetanensis travels in tap water on Italian trains
- Source :
- Journal of Water and Health. 13:210-216
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- IWA Publishing, 2014.
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Abstract
- Tap water samples from the toilets of an Italian national railway train were collected over a period of 10 months and tested for the presence of Cyclospora cayetanensis (C. cayetanensis) using EvaGreen® real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay coupled with high resolution melting (HRM) analysis for protozoan detection and oocyst quantification. C. cayetanensis positive samples were detected in March, April, and May 2013, with the number of oocysts of 4, 5, and 11 per liter, respectively. This is the first finding of C. cayetanensis in water samples in Italy. The findings call for an improvement of hygiene and water safety by the Italian national railway company.
- Subjects :
- Microbiology (medical)
Hydrology
Veterinary medicine
biology
Drinking Water
Water pollutants
Oocysts
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Sequence Analysis, DNA
DNA, Protozoan
Water safety
Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
biology.organism_classification
Cyclospora cayetanensis
Cyclospora
Infectious Diseases
Geography
Italy
Tap water
Water Pollutants
Railroads
Waste Management and Disposal
Water Science and Technology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19967829 and 14778920
- Volume :
- 13
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Water and Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f3dfac150cef6d55b6374a52855ea44f