Contents Notes |
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 -- Enteroviruses and parechoviruses -- Hepatitis A virus -- Hepatitis E virus -- Human caliciviruses -- Reoviruses -- Rotaviruses. |