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Safely Managed Hygiene: A Risk-Based Assessment of Handwashing Water Quality

Matthew Eric Verbyla, Timothy R. Julian

Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Indicator 6.2.1 requires household handwashing facilities to have soap and water, but there are no guidelines for handwashing water quality. In contrast, drinking water quality guidelines are defined: water must be "free ...
AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

The Toxoplasma gondii plastid replication and repair enzyme complex, PREX

A plastid-like organelle, the apicoplast, is essential to the majority of medically and veterinary important apicomplexan protozoa including Toxoplasma gondii and Plasmodium. The apicoplast contains multiple copies of a 35 kb genome, the replication of whi ...
Cambridge University Press2009

Uncertainty in prediction of disinfection performance

Urs von Gunten

Predicting the disinfection performance of a full-scale reactor in drinking water treatment is associated with considerable uncertainty. In view of quantitative risk analysis, this study assesses the uncertainty involved in predicting inactivation of Crypt ...
2007

Simultaneous prediction of Cryptosporidium parvum oocyst inactivation and bromate formation during ozonation of synthetic waters

Urs von Gunten, Ji Hyun Kim

A model was developed to simultaneously assess Cryptosporidium parvum oocyst inactivation and bromate formation during ozonation of synthetic solutions in batch and flow-through reactors. The model incorporated 65 elementary chemical reactions involved in ...
2004

Specific recognition of the viral protein UL18 by CD85j/LIR-1/ILT2 on CD8+ T cells mediates the non-MHC-restricted lysis of human cytomegalovirus-infected cells

Lucia Baldi Unser

Immune evasion mechanisms of human CMV are known; however, the immune control of infection remains poorly elucidated. We show that interaction between the viral protein UL18 on infected cells and the invariant receptor CD85j/LIR-1/ILT2 expressed on CTL is ...
2004

Ozonation of drinking water: Part II. Disinfection and by-product formation in presence of bromide, iodide or chlorine

Urs von Gunten

Ozone is an excellent disinfectant and can even be used to inactivate microorganisms such as protozoa which are very resistant to conventional disinfectants. Proper rate constants for the inactivation of microorganisms are only available for six species (E ...
2003

Prediction of the disinfection and oxidation efficiency of full-scale ozone reactors

Urs von Gunten

The efficiency of a two-step ozonation with regard to disinfection and oxidation of micropollutants; was assessed for a river-water treatment plant (Limmat River, Zurich, Switzerland). The assessment was based on laboratory experiments to estimate transien ...
2003

Allogeneic beta-islet cells correct diabetes and resist immune rejection

Patrick Aebischer

Allogeneic MHC-incompatible organ or cell grafts are usually promptly rejected by immunocompetent hosts. Here we tested allogeneic beta-islet cell graft acceptance by immune or naive C57BL/6 mice rendered diabetic with streptozotocin (STZ). Fully MHC-misma ...
2002

Inactivation of Bacillus subtilis spores and formation of bromate during ozonation

Urs von Gunten

Inactivation of B. subtilis spores with ozone was investigated to assess the effect of pH and temperature, to compare the kinetics to those for the inactivation of C. parvum oocysts, to investigate bromate formation under 2-log inactivation conditions, and ...
2001

Ozonation of bromide-containing drinking waters: a delicate balance between disinfection and bromate formation

Urs von Gunten

The occurrence of Cryptosporidium in raw waters and bromate formation during ozonation of bromide-containing waters leads to a difficult optimisation of ozonation processes. On the one hand inactivation of Cryptosporidium requires high ozone exposures, on ...
2000

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