Risk assessment of opportunistic bacterial pathogens in drinking water

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 152, Issue , 1997, Pages 57-83

  Rusin, Patricia A ^a   Rose, Joan B ^b   Haas, Charles N ^c   Gerba, Charles P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

ACINETOBACTER; AEROMONAS; HOSPITAL LABORATORY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEGIONELLA; MENINGITIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MORAXELLA; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PNEUMONIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPSIS; STANDARD; UNITED STATES; WATER SUPPLY; XANTHOMONAS;

ACINETOBACTER; AEROMONAS; FRESH WATER; HUMANS; LABORATORIES, HOSPITAL; LEGIONELLA; MENINGITIS; MORAXELLA; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPSIS; UNITED STATES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER SUPPLY; XANTHOMONAS;

EID: 0030626537     PISSN: 01795953     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-1964-4_2     Document Type: Article

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