Dr. Germ: Charles P. Gerba - (Dental Office Magazine)
December 28, 2007 – 7:51 pmCharles John Palenik, director of Infection Control Research and Services at the Indiana University School of Dentistry
http://www.dentalofficemag.com/display_article/315663/54/none/none/Dept/Dr.-Germ
Charles P. Gerba, PhD, professor of environmental microbiology at the University of Arizona, is an expert on drinking water quality and pathogens in the environment. He has published more than 400 scientific articles and nine books. He developed the first method to test water for the presence of cryptosporidium, a parasite responsible for sporadic outbreaks of diarrhea. But it is his interest in household and workplace microbes that has brought him greater recognition and the moniker ? Dr. Germ. For Dr. Gerba, it all started after flushing a toilet in Houston, Texas.
While a postdoctoral fellow at Baylor University, Dr. Gerba was asked by his advisor to observe a toilet flushing and to note the aerosols generated. Dr. Gerba soon devised a method for studying the distribution patterns of the droplets emitted, and called it […]
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