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Pierre Payment
Researcher at Institut national de la recherche scientifique
Publications - 132
Citations - 6136
Pierre Payment is an academic researcher from Institut national de la recherche scientifique. The author has contributed to research in topics: Fecal coliform & Rubella virus. The author has an hindex of 40, co-authored 132 publications receiving 5853 citations. Previous affiliations of Pierre Payment include Université du Québec & University of New Hampshire.
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Real-time PCR for quantification of Giardia and Cryptosporidium in environmental water samples and sewage.
TL;DR: Comparison of DNA extraction methodologies to maximize DNA yield from cysts and oocysts determined that a combination of freeze-thaw, sonication, and purification using the DNeasy kit (Qiagen) provided a highly efficient method.
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A fatal waterborne disease epidemic in Walkerton, Ontario: comparison with other waterborne outbreaks in the developed world.
TL;DR: The circumstances surrounding the Walkerton tragedy are an important reference source for those concerned with providing safe drinking water and they present the challenge for how drinking water safety can be managed to prevent such tragedies in the future.
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Clostridium perfringens and somatic coliphages as indicators of the efficiency of drinking water treatment for viruses and protozoan cysts.
Pierre Payment,Eduardo L. Franco +1 more
TL;DR: Large-volume samples were collected and analyzed for the presence of pathogens and potential indicators and the somatic coliphage counts were the only explanatory variable for the human enteric virus counts in settled water, while in filtered water samples it was C perfringens counts.
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A randomized trial to evaluate the risk of gastrointestinal disease due to consumption of drinking water meeting current microbiological standards.
TL;DR: It is estimated that 35% of the reported GI illnesses among the tapwater drinkers were water-related and preventable, raising questions about the adequacy of current standards of drinking water quality to prevent water-borne endemic gastrointestinal illness.
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A prospective epidemiological study of gastrointestinal health effects due to the consumption of drinking water
Pierre Payment,Jack Siemiatycki,Lesley Richardson,Gilles Renaud,Eduardo L. Franco,Michèle Prévost +5 more
TL;DR: If drinking water meeting currently accepted microbiological standards is the source of gastrointestinal illnesses and to attempt to identify the source(s) of these illnesses, a middle class suburban community served by a single water filtration plant is surveyed.