Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment of Cryptosporidiosis and Giardiasis from Very Small Private Water Supplies

Risk Analysis

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 228-236

  Hunter, Paul R ^a   De Sylor, Marianna Anderle ^b   Risebro, Helen L ^a   Nichols, Gordon L ^c   Kay, David ^d   Hartemann, Philippe ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^d ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Cryptosporidiosis; Giardiasis; Risk assessment; Rural health; Water supplies

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DISEASE RISKS; E. COLI; ENGLAND; EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; GIARDIA; GIARDIASIS; INFECTION RATES; PRIVATE WATER SUPPLY; PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY; QUALITY SUPPLY; QUANTITATIVE MICROBIAL RISK ASSESSMENT; REGRESSION EQUATION; RURAL HEALTH; SURVEILLANCE DATA; WATER-BORNE DISEASE; YOUNG CHILDREN;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PATHOGENS; PUBLIC RISKS; RATING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; WATER SUPPLY;

HEALTH RISKS;

CHILD HEALTH; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SPREAD; ENDEMIC SPECIES; HEALTH RISK; IMMUNITY; PROTOZOAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GIARDIA; GIARDIASIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GIARDIA; GIARDIASIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

ENGLAND; FRANCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GIARDIA;

EID: 79951520109     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2010.01499.x     Document Type: Article

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