| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 506 pages) : illustrations |
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Emerging issues in water and infectious disease series, 1728-2160 |
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Emerging issues in water and infectious disease series.
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| Contents |
Expert consensus : expert meeting group report -- Emerging zoonotic diseases and water -- What are the criteria for determining whether a disease is zoonotic and water related? -- Impacts of anthropogenic and environmental factors on the distribution of zoonoses -- The control envelope and risk management -- Tropical organisms in Asia/Africa/South America -- Incidence of the major zoonotic diseases transmitted by water in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean -- Waterborne outbreaks caused by zoonotic pathogens in the USA -- Symptoms, treatments, and health consequences of waterborne zoonotic diseases -- Epidemiological studies and surveillance -- Zoonoses in Scotland--food, water, or contact? -- Potential public health risk of Campylobacter and other zoonotic waterborne infections in New Zealand |
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Verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli and other diarrhoeagenic E. coli -- Salmonella and other enteric organisms -- Prospects of waterborne viral zoonoses -- Waterborne zoonotic protozoa -- Cyclosporiasis -- Major helminth zoonoses in water -- Human fascioliasis -- Leptospirosis and other potential zoonoses in water -- Managing risk of waterborne zoonotic disease through water quality surveillance -- Faecal source identification -- Rapid methods for the detection and enumeration of microorganisms in water -- Control of zoonotic waterborne pathogens in animal reservoirs -- Control of zoonotic pathogens in animal wastes -- Control of zoonotic diseases in drinking-water -- A regulatory perspective on zoonotic pathogens in water -- The Stockholm framework for guidelines for microbial contaminants in drinking-water -- Quantitative microbial risk assessment issues -- Waterborne zoonoses : emerging pathogens and emerging patterns of infection |
| Summary |
Provides a critical and balanced assessment of current knowledge about waterborne zoonoses and identifies strategies and research needs for anticipating and controlling future emerging water-related diseases |
| Notes |
"World Health Organization ; United States Environmental Protection Agency." |
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Developed from a workshop |
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Published on behalf of the World Health Organization |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Water -- Microbiology -- Congresses.
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Waterborne infection -- Congresses.
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Zoonoses -- Congresses.
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Water Microbiology.
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Zoonoses -- etiology.
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Communicable Diseases, Emerging -- etiology.
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Disease Reservoirs.
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Disease Transmission, Infectious -- prevention & control.
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Water Supply.
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Water -- parasitology.
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| Genre/Form |
Congress.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cotruvo, Joseph A., editor
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United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
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World Health Organization.
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| ISBN |
1780405863 (electronic bk.) |
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9781780405865 (electronic bk.) |
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