Hands and water as vectors of diarrheal pathogens in Bagamoyo, Tanzania

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 355-363

  Mattioli, Mia Catharine ^a   Pickering, Amy J ^b   Gilsdorf, Rebecca J ^a   Davis, Jennifer ^a,b   Boehm, Alexandria B ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PATHOGENS; E. COLI; ENTERIC BACTERIA; FECAL INDICATOR BACTERIA; MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; MOLECULAR METHODS; PATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ROTAVIRUSES; SOURCE WATERS; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA; VIRAL GENES; VIRULENCE GENE; WATER SOURCE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; TURBIDITY; VIRUSES; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

PATHOGENS;

DRINKING WATER;

BACTERIUM; CHILD HEALTH; DIARRHEAL DISEASE; DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; DRINKING WATER; HEALTH RISK; MORTALITY; TURBIDITY; VIRUS; WATER POLLUTION;

ADENOVIRUS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTEROIDALES; DIARRHEA; DISEASE CARRIER; ENTEROVIRUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HAND; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; ROTAVIRUS; SANITATION; TANZANIA; VIRUS GENE; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; DRINKING WATER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, VIRAL; HAND; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; TANZANIA; VIRUS DISEASES; VIRUSES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS; YOUNG ADULT;

BAGAMOYO; PWANI; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA;

ADENOVIRIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDALES; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROVIRUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ROTAVIRUS;

EID: 84871790437     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es303878d     Document Type: Article

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