Research Catalog

Title

Pathogenic mycobacteria in water : a guide to public health consequences, monitoring and management / edited by S. Pedley, J. Bartram [and others].

Publication

London, UK : IWA Pub., 2004.

Supplementary Content

WHO. Water Sanitation and Health(WSH) website

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Pedley, S.
• Bartram, Jamie.
• World Health Organization.

Description

xxii, 237 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Emerging issues in water and infectious disease series

Uniform Title

Emerging issues in water and infectious disease series.

Subjects

• Water quality management
• Water Microbiology > standards
• Risk Assessment > methods
• Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous
• Nontuberculous Mycobacteria > pathogenicity
• Cost of Illness
• Water Supply > analysis
• Water Supply > standards
• Drinking water
• Water > Microbiology > Technique

Note

• Developed from the expert workshop held in Guildford, UK on 18-20 Sept., 2002 by the World Health Organization's Water, Sanitation and Health Office in collaboration with the US EPA Office of Research and Development.
• "Published on behalf of the World Health Organization."--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-227) and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available via the World Wide Web.

Contents

Introduction -- Natural ecology and survival in water of mycobacteria of potential public health significance -- Environmental sources of Mycobacterium avium linked to routes of exposure -- Biology of waterborne pathogenic mycobacteria -- Analytical methods for the detection of waterborne and environmental pathogenic mycobacteria -- The Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis problem and its relation to the causation of Crohn disease -- Disseminated infection, cervical adenitis and other MAC infections -- Skin, bone and soft tissue infections -- Pulmonary infection in non-HIV infected individuals -- Disease resulting from contaminated equipment and invasive procedures -- Control, treatment and disinfection of Mycobacterium avium complex in drinking water -- Approaches to risk management in priority setting -- References -- Index.

ISBN

• 1843390590
• 9241562595 (WHO)

OCLC

• ocm56782496
• SCSB-5078682

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries