Waterborne pathogens

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"This manual provides basic information for water treatment operators about waterborne viral, bacterial, and parasitic pathogens. The topics covered include assessing current levels of contaminants in source waters, containing these contaminants, optimizing treatment plant performance, and maintaining water quality in the distribution system."--Jacket.

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Title Statements

Full title :Waterborne pathogens.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2006.
Edition:2nd ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):American Water Works Association
Place of Publication:Denver, CO
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2006.

The Physical Object

Description:xvi, 324 pages : : illustrations (some color) ; : 28 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1583214038, 9781583214039
oclc:ocm62679941
LC Classification:TD491
Dewey Decimal:628.1 s

Sect. I. Introduction to water quality. Waterborne isease outbreaks: their causes, problems, and challenges to treatment barriers -- Water quality in source water, treatment, and distribution systems -- Water quality monitoring, sampling, and testing -- Molecular detection of waterborne microorganisms -- sect. II. Introduction to bacterial pathogenic agents. Acintobacter -- Aeromonas -- Campylobacter -- Cyanobacteria -- Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli -- Escherichiacoli -- Flavobacterium -- Helicobacter pylori -- Klebsiella -- Legionella -- Mycobacterium avium complex -- Pseudomonas -- Salmonella -- Serratia -- Shigella -- Staphylococcus -- Vibrio cholerae -- Yersinia -- sect. III. Introduction to parasitic pathogenic agents. Acanthamoeba spp. -- Ascaris lumbricoides -- Balamuthia mandrillaris -- Balantidium coli -- Blastocystis hominis -- Cryptosporidium parvum and Cryptosporidium hominis.

Cyclospora cayetanensis -- Entamoeba histolytica -- Giardia lamblia -- Isospora belli -- Microsporidia -- Naegleria fowleri -- Schistosomatidae -- Toxoplasma gondii -- Trichuris trichiura -- sect. IV. Introduction to viral pathogenic agents. Adenoviruses -- Astroviruses -- Emerging viruses …

Subjects

Eau -- Épuration Eau -- Microbiologie Infection d'origine hydrique Micro-organismes pathogènes Pathogenic microorganisms Water -- Purification Water Microbiology WATER POLLUTION Water Supply, standards Water-supply -- Health aspects Waterborne diseases Waterborne infection