ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2010
Seasonal retention and release of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts by environmental biofilms in the laboratory.
Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.
- Assessment of the potential occurrence ofJournal of parasitic diseases : official organ of the Indian Society for Parasitology · 2024Article
- Effect of Glycosaminoglycans onApplied and environmental microbiology · 2023Article
- Interactions between free-living amoebae and Cryptosporidium parvum: an experimental study.Parasite (Paris, France) · 2023Article
- Review
- Biofilm Sampling for Detection ofApplied and environmental microbiology · 2020Article
- Calcium-Mediated Biophysical Binding of Cryptosporidium parvum Oocysts to Surfaces Is Sensitive to Oocyst Age.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2019Article
- Role of Wall Shear Stress in Cryptosporidium parvum Oocyst Attachment to Environmental Biofilms.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2017Article
- Pseudo-Second-Order Calcium-Mediated Cryptosporidium parvum Oocyst Attachment to Environmental Biofilms.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2017Article
- Extracellular excystation and development of Cryptosporidium: tracing the fate of oocysts within Pseudomonas aquatic biofilm systems.BMC microbiology · 2014Article
- A comparison of effects of broad-spectrum antibiotics and biosurfactants on established bacterial biofilms.Current microbiology · 2013Article
- Multiplication of the waterborne pathogen Cryptosporidium parvum in an aquatic biofilm system.Parasites & vectors · 2013Article
- Biofilms reduce solar disinfection of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2012Article
- Biofilm roughness determines Cryptosporidium parvum retention in environmental biofilms.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2012Article
- A time series study of gastroenteritis and tap water quality in the Nantes area, France, 2002-2007.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiologyArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Cryptosporidium is a genus of waterborne protozoan parasites that causes significant gastrointestinal disease in humans. These parasites can accumulate in environmental biofilms and be subsequently released to contaminate water supplies. Natural microbial assemblages were collected each season from an eastern Pennsylvania stream and used to grow biofilms in laboratory microcosms in which influx, efflux, and biofilm retention were determined from daily oocyst counts. For each seasonal biofilm, oocysts attached to the biofilm quickly during oocyst dosing. Upon termination of oocyst dosing, the percentage of oocysts retained within the biofilm decreased to a new steady state within 5 days. Seasonal differences in biofilm retention of oocysts were observed. The spring biofilm retained the greatest percentage of oocysts, followed (in decreasing order) by the winter, summer, and fall biofilms. There was no statistically significant correlation between the percentage of oocysts attached to the biofilm and (i) any measured stream water quality parameter (including temperature, pH, conductivity, and dissolved organic carbon concentration) or (ii) experimental temperature. Seasonal differences in oocyst retention persisted when biofilms were tested with stream water from a different season. These data suggest that seasonal variation in the microbial community and resulting biofilm architecture may be more important to oocyst transport in this stream site than water quality. The biofilm attachment and detachment dynamics of C. parvum oocysts have implications for public health, and the drinking water industry should recognize that the potential exists for pathogen-free water to become contaminated during the distribution process as a result of biofilm dynamics.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.