Quantitative bacterial examination of domestic water supplies in the Lesotho Highlands: Water quality, sanitation, and village health

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 77, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 829-835

  Kravitz, J D ^a   Nyaphisi, M ^b   Mandel, R ^c   Petersen, E ^c  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Environmental Section   (Lesotho)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Drinking water microbiology; Escherichia coli; Health behaviour; Health surveys; Pathogenicity; Sanitation; Water quality

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DISEASE; RURAL SOCIETY; SANITATION; WATER SUPPLY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; LESOTHO; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RATING SCALE; SANITATION; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIARRHEA; DISEASES; EDUCATION; ENGLISH SPEAKING AFRICA; ENVIRONMENT; HEALTH; HEALTH EDUCATION; HYGIENE; LESOTHO; NATURAL RESOURCES; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; RURAL POPULATION; SAMPLING STUDIES; SANITATION; SOUTHERN AFRICA; STUDIES; SURVEYS; WATER SUPPLY--ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LESOTHO; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL HEALTH; SEASONS; SEWAGE; TOILET FACILITIES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER SUPPLY;

LESOTHO;

EID: 0032742857     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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