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SURVEILLANCE AND INVESTIGATION OF WATERBORNE DISEASE OUTBREAKS - VOLUME I: HANDBOOK
Citation:
Craun, G. SURVEILLANCE AND INVESTIGATION OF WATERBORNE DISEASE OUTBREAKS - VOLUME I: HANDBOOK. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/1-90/005a (NTIS PB91137307).
Description:
This work consists of two volumes. olume I is a series of articles based on selected presentations made at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Association of State Drinking Water Administrators Workshop on Methods for Investigation of Water-borne Disease Outbreaks held on October 11-13, 1988, in Denver, Colorado. rticles were selected to provide background on the etiologies and causes of previous outbreaks, various aspects of epidemiologic methods, disease surveillance and reporting, and laboratory analysis. his is intended to serve as a handbook to assist in the investigation of waterborne outbreaks. umber of previously published articles have been reprinted in Volume II to supplement information contained in the handbook. hese articles provide examples of outbreak investigations and surveillance activities. They have been reprinted to illustrate principles discussed in the handbook and compiled as a convenience to those investigators with limited access to library facilities. The contributions of the authors of both handbook and journal articles are gratefully acknowledged. any of the authors of articles in the handbook provided substantial peer review assistance. n addition, Dr. Dennis Juranek, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia; Mr. Peter Karalekas, Jr., Water Supply Section, EPA, Boston, Massachusetts; and Dr. Vincent P. Olivieri, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene, Baltimore, Maryland, served as peer reviewers for the handbook.