Microbiological safety of drinking water: United States and global perspectives

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 107, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1999, Pages 191-206

  Ford, Timothy Edgcumbe ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlorine resistance; Drinking water; Microbiologic safety; Pathogens; Waterborne disease

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CAMPYLOBACTER; CHOLERA; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GIARDIA; HELICOBACTER; HUMAN; INFECTION; LEGIONELLA; MICROBIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; MICROSCOPY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; RESERVOIR; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA; UNITED STATES; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRUS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPYLOBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GIARDIA; HELICOBACTER; LEGIONELLA; LEPTOSPIRA; MYCOBACTERIUM; PROTOZOA; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0032955293     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.99107s1191     Document Type: Article

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