Screening-level microbial risk assessment of urban water locations: A tool for prioritization

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 9780-9789

  Sales Ortells, Helena ^a   Medema, Gertjan ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; FLOODS; HAZARDS; HEALTH RISKS; PATHOGENS; RISK MANAGEMENT; SPORTS; WATER QUALITY;

ANNUAL PROBABILITIES; COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOWS; DATA COLLECTION; EU BATHING WATER DIRECTIVE; EVENT PROBABILITY; MICROBIAL RISK ASSESSMENT; QUANTITATIVE MICROBIAL RISK ASSESSMENT (QMRA); STORMWATER SEWERS;

PROBABILITY;

FRESH WATER; LAKE WATER; SURFACE WATER; SEWAGE;

BACTERIAL DISEASE; BATHING WATER; DISEASE INCIDENCE; HEALTH RISK; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARASITIC DISEASE; PATHOGEN; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PRIORITIZATION; PROBABILITY; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; URBAN AREA; WATER QUALITY;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; CAMPYLOBACTER; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEALTH HAZARD; LAKE; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; LUNG MINUTE VOLUME; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; POND; RESIDENTIAL AREA; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK REDUCTION; RIVER; ROWING; SCREENING; SEDIMENTATION; SEWER; SWIMMING; SWIMMING POOL; URBAN AREA; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT; ANALYSIS; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; CITY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEGIONELLOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; NETHERLANDS; RECREATION; SEWAGE; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER POLLUTION;

CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; CITIES; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; FRESH WATER; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLOSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NETHERLANDS; NOROVIRUS; RECREATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEWAGE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 84906263059     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es5020407     Document Type: Article

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