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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2018

Assessment of Microbiological Safety of Water in Public Swimming Pools in Guangzhou, China.

Xiaohong Wei, Juntao Li, Shuiping Hou, Conghui Xu, Hao Zhang, Edward Robert Atwill, Xunde Li, Zhicong Yang, Shouyi Chen

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  7. Microbiological Contamination of Strawberries from U-Pick Farms in Guangzhou, China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Xiaohong WeiGuangzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou 510440, China. weijuanwo@163.com.
Juntao LiGuangzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou 510440, China. jtwl1011@163.com.
Shuiping HouGuangzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou 510440, China. gzcdc367@163.com.
Conghui XuGuangzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou 510440, China. yeast-27@163.com.
Hao ZhangGuangzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou 510440, China. haozsu@163.com.
Edward Robert AtwillDepartment of Population Health and Reproduction, University of California Davis, California, CA 95616, USA. ratwill@ucdavis.edu.
Xunde LiDepartment of Population Health and Reproduction, University of California Davis, California, CA 95616, USA. xdli@ucdavis.edu.
Zhicong YangGuangzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou 510440, China. yangzc@gzcdc.org.cn.
Shouyi ChenGuangzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou 510440, China. Shouyi_chen@163.com.ORCID 0000-0002-7857-6507

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study assessed microbiological safety of water from public swimming pools in Guangzhou, China. Water samples from 39 outdoor municipal swimming pools were collected from late June to early September, 2013 and subjected to detection of protozoa (

Indexed as

Public HealthWater MicrobiologyAnimalsAnti-Bacterial AgentsChinaChlorineCryptosporidiumEscherichia coliGiardiaHumansMultilocus Sequence TypingPseudomonas aeruginosaSwimming PoolsAnti-Bacterial AgentsChlorineantibiotic resistanceCryptosporidiumGiardiamulti-locus sequence typingP. aeruginosaswimming poolwater

Identifiers

PMID29976878
PMCPMC6068525

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