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, Oscar, Zúñiga Calero, Gerardo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Gulf of Nicoya; bacterial depuration; Crassostrea gigas; Anadara spp; E; coli; Golfo de Nicoya; depuración bacteriana; Pequeña
• Online Access: https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=4893132

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 Nicoya,...