Journal of Water and Health

Volume 3 Number 1
March 2005

Contents

1

Effect of alternative on-site wastewater treatment on the viability and culturability of Salmonella choleraesuis

J. W. Pundsack, R. E. Hicks and R. P. Axler

15

Development and test for long-term stability of a synthetic standard for a quantitative Cryptosporidium parvum LightCycler™ PCR assay

Renata Filkorn-Kaiser, Konrad Botzenhart and Albrecht Wiedenmann

27

Home water treatment by direct filtration with natural coagulant

Raveendra Babu and Malay Chaudhuri

31

Effective water supply surveillance in urban areas of developing countries

Guy Howard and Jamie Bartram

45

Ferrates (iron(VI) and iron(V)): Environmentally friendly oxidants and disinfectants

Virender K. Sharma, Futaba Kazama, Hu Jiangyong and Ajay K. Ray

59

Occurrence and correlations between coliphages and anthropogenic viruses in the Massachusetts Bay using enrichment and ICC-nPCR

Nicola A. Ballester, Justin H. Fontaine and Aaron B. Margolin

69

Aspects of health-related microbiology of the Subin, an urban river in Kumasi, Ghana

K. Obiri-Danso, C. A.A. Weobong and K. Jones

77

Serological responses to Cryptosporidium antigens among women using riverbank-filtered water, conventionally filtered surface water and groundwater in Hungary

Floyd Frost, Tim Muller, Gunther Craun, Kádár Mihály, Berencsi György and Rebecca Calderon

83

Isolation and identification of freshwater bacteria antagonistic to Giardia intestinalis cysts

Randy P. Revetta, Mark R. Rodgers and Brian K. Kinkle