Screening-level risk assessment of Coxiella burnetii (Q Fever) transmission via aeration of drinking water

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 4125-4133

  Sales Ortells, Helena ^a,b   Medema, Gertjan ^a,b  

^a KWR WATERCYCLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERATED GROUNDWATER; AERATION PROCESS; AEROSOLIZATION; AIR FILTRATION; AIRBORNE EXPOSURE; BIOAEROSOLS; DOSE-RESPONSE MODELS; EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; QUANTITATIVE DATA; QUANTITATIVE MICROBIAL RISK ASSESSMENT; RELATIVE RISKS; RISK CHARACTERIZATION; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; TAP WATER; UNCERTAIN PARAMETERS;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; DIAGNOSIS; GROUNDWATER; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

WATER AERATION;

DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER;

AERATION; AEROSOL; BACTERIAL DISEASE; BACTERIUM; DATA SET; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; DRINKING WATER; FILTRATION; GOAT; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AERATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; COXIELLA BURNETII; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; Q FEVER; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AIR; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; ANIMALS; COXIELLA BURNETII; DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GOATS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; NETHERLANDS; Q FEVER; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

CAPRA HIRCUS; COXIELLA BURNETII;

EID: 84859317401     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es203744g     Document Type: Article

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