Water-related diseases outbreaks reported in Italy

Journal of Water and Health

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 423-432

  Blasi, Monica Francesca ^a   Carere, Mario ^a   Pompa, Maria Grazia ^b   Rizzuto, Elvira ^b   Funari, Enzo ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Italy)

Author keywords

Crops; Drinking water; Outbreaks; Shellfish; Surveillance Systems; WRDs

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE SPREAD; DRINKING WATER; HEALTH IMPACT; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROORGANISM; PATHOGEN; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CAMPYLOBACTER; COASTAL WATERS; CONTAMINATED SHELLFISH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP PRODUCTION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENTERIC VIRUS; EPIDEMIC; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GIARDIA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NOROVIRUS; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOSIS; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS INFECTION; WATER CONTAMINATION;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; ITALY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SHELLFISH; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

CAMPYLOBACTER; GIARDIA; NORWALK VIRUS; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA;

EID: 53349144230     PISSN: 14778920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wh.2008.063     Document Type: Article

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