Ozone inactivation of Cryptosporidium parvum in demand-free phosphate buffer determined by in vitro excystation and animal infectivity.

AUTOR(ES)

Finch, G R

RESUMO

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.

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