Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment
2nd Edition
Published on 2. June 2014
440 pages
978-1-118-91052-8 (ISBN)
Description
Provides the latest QMRA methodologies to determine infection riskcause by either accidental microbial infections or deliberateinfections caused by terrorism
* Reviews the latest methodologies to quantify at everystep of the microbial exposure pathways, from the first release ofa pathogen to the actual human infection
* Provides techniques on how to gatherinformation, on how each microorganism moves through theenvironment, how to determine their survival rates on variousmedia, and how people are exposed to the microorganism
* Explains how QMRA can be used as a tool to measure theimpact of interventions and identify the best policies andpractices to protect public health and safety
* Includes new information on genetic methods
* Techniques use to develop risk models for drinkingwater, groundwater, recreational water, food and pathogens in theindoor environment
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Charles N. Haas | Joan B. Rose | Charles P. Gerba
Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment
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08/2014
2nd Edition
Wiley
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06/2014
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Persons
Charles N. Haas is the head of the department of Civil,Architectural and Environmental Engineering at Drexel Universityand the Betz Chair Professor of Environmental Engineering. Hehas served on numerous advisory committees of the US EPA and theNational Research Council
Joan Rose serves as the Homer Nowlin Chair in WaterResearch at Michigan State University, the Co-Director of theCenter for Advancing Microbial Risk Assessment (CAMRA) and theDirector of the Center for Water Sciences (CWS). She is amember of the National Academy of Engineering.
Charles P. Gerba is a Professor in the department ofSoil, Water and Environmental Science at the University of Arizona.He is the author of 11 books and over 400 journal papers. Dr. Gerbais a member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ScienceAdvisory Board Committees on Drinking Water and ResearchStrategies.
Content
Preface
1. Motivation
2. Microbial Agents and Transmission
3. Risk Assessment Paradigms
4. Conducting the Hazard Identification (HAZ ID)
5. Analytical Methods and the QMRA Framework: Developing Occurrence and Exposure Databases
6. Exposure Assessment
7. Predictive Microbiology
8. Conducting the Dose Response Assessment
9. Uncertainty
10. Population Disease Transmission
11. Risk Characterization and Decision Making
