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Record Nr.

UNINA9910132199303321

Autore

Haas Charles N.

Titolo

Quantitative microbial risk assessment / / Charles N. Haas, Joan B. Rose, Charles P. Gerba

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-118-91002-8

1-118-91003-6

1-118-91052-4

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (441 p.)

Disciplina

615.9/02

Soggetti

Communicable diseases - Methodology - Methodology

Health risk assessment

Infection - Mathematical models

Environmental health - Mathematical models

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Motivation -- Microbial agents and transmission -- Risk assessment paradigms -- Conducting the hazard identification (HAZ ID) -- Analytical methods and QMRA framework -- Exposure assessment -- Predictive microbiology -- Conducting the dose-response assessment -- Uncertainty -- Population disease transmission -- Risk characterization and decision making

Sommario/riassunto

Provides the latest QMRA methodologies to determine infection risk cause by either accidental microbial infections or deliberate infections caused by terrorism. Reviews the latest methodologies to quantify at every step of the microbial exposure pathways, from the first release of a pathogen to the actual human infection. Provides techniques on how to gather information, on how each microorganism moves through the environment, how to determine their survival rates on various media, and how people are exposed to the microorganism. Explains how QMRA can be used as a tool to measure the impact of interventions and identify the best policies and practices to protect public health and



safety. Includes new information on genetic methods. Techniques use to develop risk models for drinking water, groundwater, recreational water, food and pathogens in the indoor environment. -- Publisher