Preliminary assessment of small scale bacterial depuration of Crassostrea gigas and Anadara spp., Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica

• Main Authors: Vega Corrales, Luis A., Marín-Vindas, Carolina, Pacheco Prieto, Óscar, Zúñiga Calero, Gerardo
• Other Authors: Consejo Nacional de Rectores (Costa Rica) CONARE, Gobierno de Costa Rica
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Nacional (Costa Rica) 2013
• Subjects: Gulf of Nicoya; Bacterial depuration; Crassostrea gigas; Anadara spp; ; E. coli; ; Golfo de Nicoya; Depuración bacteriana; Pacific; Pequeña
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/192139

[EN] Bivalve molluscs are sold without any sanitary control in Costa Rica, which represents a public health risk due to the possible accumulation of pathogenic bacteria. Small scale bacterial depuration treatments were preliminarily evaluated on Crassostrea gigas and Anadara spp. from the Gulf of Ni...