Four epidemiological categories were initially devised for classifying water-related infectious
“diseases” with regard to the engineering technologies required to prevent or control them …

The importance of wild birds as potential vectors of disease has received recent renewed
empirical interest, especially regarding human health. Understanding the spread of bacterial …

Potential fecal contamination of sand in the wave-washed zone of public bathing beaches is
overlooked in beach monitoring programs. Activity in this zone can bring pathogens to the …

Beach sand is a habitat that supports many microbes, including viruses, bacteria, fungi and
protozoa (micropsammon). The apparently inhospitable conditions of beach sand …

Discusses the presence of Campylobacters in water, sewage and the environment. Details
of Campylobacters in fresh and marine water; Discussion of Campylobacters in sewage as …

Swimming advisories due to excessive Escherichia coli concentrations are common at 63rd
Street Beach, Chicago, Ill. An intensive study was undertaken to characterize the source and …

The PubMed and ScienceDirect bibliographic databases were searched for the period of
1998–2009 to evaluate the impact of climatic and environmental determinants on food-and …

Considerable investment has been made in recent years in improvements to the
microbiological quality of urban wastewater discharges to surface waters, particularly in …

Aims: To determine the flock prevalence and to estimate the within flock prevalence of
Campylobacter in broiler flocks from different rearing systems, and to determine the …

Fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) are nearly ubiquitous in California (CA) beach sands. Sands
were collected from 55 beaches along the CA coast. Ninety-one percent of the beaches had …