Workshop summary: Estimating waterborne disease risks in the United States

Journal of Water and Health

Volumn 4, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2006, Pages 241-254

  Craun, Gunther F ^a   Calderon, Rebecca L ^b  

^a Gunther F Craun and Associates   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Endemic disease; Epidemic disease; Gastroenteritis; Gastrointestinal illness; Waterborne disease; Waterborne outbreaks

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER;

DISEASE INCIDENCE; EPIDEMIC; GASTROENTERITIS; HEALTH RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATERBORNE DISEASE;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMMUNITY CARE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GASTROENTERITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEROPREVALENCE; UNITED STATES; WATER BORNE DISEASE; WATER CONTAMINATION; WORKSHOP;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; UNCERTAINTY; UNITED STATES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER SUPPLY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33746682455     PISSN: 14778920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wh.2006.025     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Blackburn, B. G., Craun, G. F., Yoder, J. S., Hill, V., Calderon, R. L., Chen, N., Lee, S. H., Levy, D. A. & Beach, M. J. 2004 Surveillance for waterborne-disease outbreaks associated with drinking water-United States, 2001-2002. Morb. Mort. Weekly Report 53, 23-45, (No. SS-8).
2. Calderon, R. L. & Craun, G. F. 2006 Estimates of endemic waterborne risks from community-intervention studies. J. Wat. Health 4(Suppl. 2), 89-100.
3. Casemore, D. 2006 Towards a US national estimate of the risk of endemic waterborne disease - sero-epidemiologic studies. J. Wat. Health 4(Suppl. 2), 121-164.
4. Colford, J. M., Roy, S., Beach, M., Hightower, A., Shaw, S. & Wade, T. 2006 A review of household drinking water intervention trials and a proposal for using their results in the estimation of endemic acute gastrointestinal illness attributable to drinking water in the United States. J. Wat. Health 4(Suppl. 2), 71-88.
5. Craun, G. F. & Calderon, R. L. 2006 Observational epidemiologic studies of endemic waterborne risks: cohort, case-control, time-series, and ecologic studies. J. Wat. Health 4(Suppl. 2), 101-120.
6. Craun, G. F., Calderon, R. L. & Wade, T. J. 2006a Assessing waterborne risks: an introduction. J. Wat. Health 4(Suppl. 2), 3-18.
7. Craun, M. F., Craun, G. F., Calderon, R. L. & Beach, M. J. 2006b Waterborne outbreaks reported in the United States. J. Wat. Health 4(Suppl. 2), 19-30.
8. Davis, L. J., Roberts, H. L., Juranek, D. D., Framm, S. R. & Soave, R. 1998 A survey of risk factors for cryptosporidiosis in New York City: drinking water and other exposures. Epidemiol. Infect. 12, 357-367.
9. Frost, F. J., Muller, T., Craun, G. F., Lockwood, W. B. & Calderon, R. L. 2002 Serological evidence of endemic waterborne Cryptosporidium infections. Ann. Epidemiol. 12, 222-227.
10. Hopkins, R. S., Shillam, P., Gaspard, B., Eisnack, L. & Karlin, R. J. 1985 Waterborne disease in Colorado: three years' surveillance and 18 outbreaks. Am. J. Public Health 75, 254.
11. Hunter, P. R., Chalmers, R. M., Hughes, S. & Syed, Q. 2005 Self reported diarrhea in a control group: a strong association with reporting of low pressure events in tap water. Clin. Infect. Dis. 40, e32-e34.
12. LeChevallier, M. W., Gullick, R. W., Karim, M. R., Friedman, M. F. & Funk, J. E. 2003 The potential for health risks from intrusion of contaminants into the distribution system from pressure transients. J. Wat. Health 1 (1), 3-14.
13. Mead, P. S., Slutsker, L., Dietz, L., McCaig, L. F., Bresee, J. S., Shapiro, C., Griffin, P. M. & Tauxe, R. V. 1999 Food-related illness and death in the United States. Emerg. Infect. Dis. 5(5), 607-625.
14. Messner, M., Shaw, S., Regli, S., Rotert, K., Blank, V. & Soller, J. 2006 An approach for developing a national estimate of waterborne disease due to drinking water and a national estimate model application. J. Wat. Health 4(Suppl. 2), 201-240.
15. Payment, P., Richardson, L., Siemiatycki, J., Dewar, R., Edwardes, M. & Franco, E. 1999 A randomized trial to evaluate the risk of gastrointestinal disease due to the consumption of drinking water meeting currently accepted microbiological standards. Am. J. Public Health 81, 703-708.
16. Payment, P., Siemiatycki, J., Richardson, L., Renaud, G., Franco, E. & Prevost, M. 1997 A prospective epidemiological study of gastrointestinal health effects due to the consumption of drinking water. Int. J. Environ. Health Res. 7, 5-31.
17. Rice, G., Heberling, M. T., Rothermich, M., Wright, J. M., Murphy, P., Craun, M. F. & Craun, G. F. 2006 The role of disease burden measures in future estimates of endemic waterborne disease. J. Wat. Health 4(Suppl. 2), 187-200.
18. Roy, S. L., Scallan, E. & Beach, M. J. 2006 The rate of acute gastrointestinal illness in developed countries. J. Wat. Health this issue.
19. Soller, J. A. 2006 Use of microbial risk assessment to inform the national estimate of acute gastrointestinal illness attributable to microbes in drinking water. J. Wat. Health 4(Suppl. 2), 165-186.