Investigation into the cause of low recovery of Cryptosporidium oocysts and Giardia cysts

Are you logged in? If you are from a WaterRA member organisation, you can access a wider range of content for this and other projects by registering and logging in, using the panel on the right.

The project objectives were to:

• Summarised the current literature understanding of factors able to reduce Cryptosporidium and/or Giardia recovery from water samples.
• Examined a pooled dataset of Cryptosporidium and Giardia recovery data from several Australian laboratories for correlation of low recovery with other available sample parameters.
• Reported on parameters correlated with low recovery, and recommend potential approaches to overcome and/or predict low recovery in water samples.