Pathogenic mycobacteria in water
Subtitle: a guide to public health consequences, monitoring and management
By: edited by S. Pedley, J. Bartram ... [et al.].
Contributors: NetLibrary, Inc; World Health Organization
Series: Emerging issues in water and infectious disease series
Publisher: IWA Pub.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London, UK
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Atypical Mycobacteria; Risk Assessment; Water Microbiology; Cost of Illness; Technique; Microbiology; Analysis; Standards; Water; Drinking water; Atypical Mycobacterium Infections; Water quality management; Water Supply; Pathogenicity; Methods
Notes: "Published on behalf of the World Health Organization."--T.p. verso.

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.

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

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