An estimate of the cost of acute health effects from food- and water-borne marine pathogens and toxins in the USA

Journal of Water and Health

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 680-694

  Ralston, Erin P ^a   Kite Powell, Hauke ^a   Beet, Andrew ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Contaminated beach exposure; Cost of illness model; Health costs; Marine borne disease; Seafood borne illness; Underreporting

Indexed keywords

MARINE TOXIN;

BACTERIAL DISEASE; BEACH; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISEASE INCIDENCE; GASTROENTERITIS; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; PATHOGENICITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; SEAFOOD; TOXIN;

ARTICLE; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; COST OF ILLNESS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD POISONING; GAMBIERDISCUS TOXICUS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KARENIA BREVIS; MARINE BACTERIUM; MARINE SPECIES; NOROVIRUS; PLESIOMONAS; RECREATION; SALMONELLA; SEA FOOD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHIGELLA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; UNITED STATES; VIBRIO; VIBRIO ALGINOLYTICUS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO FLUVIALIS; VIBRIO HOLLISAE; VIBRIO MIMICUS; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

UNITED STATES;

VIBRIO;

EID: 84856076190     PISSN: 14778920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wh.2011.157     Document Type: Article

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