Affiliation:
1. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Abstract
Inactivation of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts by ozone was performed in ozone demand-free 0.05 M phosphate buffer (pH 6.9) in bench-scale batch reactors at 7 and 22 degrees C. Ozone was added to each trial from a concentrated stock solution for contact times ranging from 5 to 15 min. The viability of the control and treated oocysts was determined by using in vitro excystation and infection in neonatal CD-1 mice. It was found that excystation consistently underestimated inactivation when compared with animal infectivity (P < or = 0.05). As inactivations increased, the difference between excystation and infectivity also increased. The inactivation kinetics of C. parvum by ozone deviated from the simple first-order Chick-Watson model and was better described by a nonlinear Hom model. The use of the Hom model for predicting inactivation resulted in a family of unique concentration and time values for each inactivation level rather than the simple CT product of the Chick-Watson model.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Ecology,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,Food Science,Biotechnology
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