Oceans and Health:

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Pathogens in the Sea: An Overview

   • Colin B. Munn

   Pages 1-28

3. Diversity, Sources, and Detection of Human Bacterial Pathogens in the Marine Environment

   • Janelle R. Thompson, Luisa A. Marcelino, Martin F. Polz

   Pages 29-68

4. Biotic and Abiotic Effects

   • Lester W. Sinton

   Pages 69-92

5. Survival of Enteric Bacteria in Seawater: Molecular Aspects

   • Yael Rozen, Shimshon Belkin

   Pages 93-107

6. Human Pathogenic Viruses in the Marine Environment

   • Albert Bosch, F. Xavier Abad, Rosa M. Pintó

   Pages 109-131

7. Survival of Viruses in the Marine Environment

   • Charles P. Gerba

   Pages 133-142

8. Zoonotic Protists in the Marine Environment

   • Ronald Fayer, James M. Trout

   Pages 143-163

9. Marine and Estuarine Harmful Algal Blooms: Impacts on Human and Animal Health

   • Jan Landsberg, Fran Van Dolah, Gregory Doucette

   Pages 165-215

10. Pathogenic Vibrio Species in the Marine and Estuarine Environment

    • Carla Pruzzo, Anwar Huq, Rita R. Colwell, Gianfranco Donelli

    Pages 217-252

11. Vibrio vulnificus

    • James D. Oliver

    Pages 253-276

12. Vibrio parahaemolyticus—Seafood Safety and Associations with Higher Organisms

    • Firdausi Qadri, Nandini Roy Chowdhury, Yoshifumi Takeda, G. Balakrish Nair

    Pages 277-295

13. Global Microbial Ecology of Vibrio cholerae

    • Rita R. Colwell

    Pages 297-305

14. Gram-Positive Bacteria in the Marine Environment

    • Maria del Mar Lleò, Caterina Signoretto, Pietro Canepari

    Pages 307-330

15. Fecal Contamination in Coastal Areas: An Engineering Approach

    • M. Pommepuy, D. Hervio-Heath, M. P. Caprais, M. Gourmelon, J. C. Le Saux, F. Le Guyader

    Pages 331-359

16. Retention of Pathogenicity in Viable Nonculturable Pathogens

    • Iddya Karunasagar, Indrani Karunasagar

    Pages 361-371

17. Thalassogenic Infectious Diseases Caused byWastewater Pollution of the Marine Environment: An Estimate of the Worldwide Occurrence

    • Hillel Shuval

    Pages 373-389

18. Bacterial Pathogens of Marine Fish

    • Brian Austin

    Pages 391-413

19. Microbial Diseases of Corals

    • E. Rosenberg, Y. Barash

    Pages 415-430

20. Aquaculture and Animal Pathogens in the Marine Environment with Emphasis on Marine Shrimp Viruses

    • Jeffrey M. Lotz, Robin M. Overstreet, D. Jay Grimes

    Pages 431-451

The importance of combating infectious diseases has received international attention, p- viding the opportunity for a multidisciplinary approach that combines medicine with other scienti?candtechnologicalcapabilities,notablyinformationtechnology,nanotechnology,and biotechnology. In fact, it has been predicted that the future will bring a merging of these te- nologies with the cognitive and behavioral sciences—major forces that have the potential to balancetheworld’sinequities.Thescienti?ccommunityandworldleadersmustworktogether to use knowledge and its applications to improve the condition of the planet. The connection between infectious diseases and the oceans provides a paradigm for this perspective. A stark global context indisputably frames all human health issues in the twenty-?rst century: the world wide movement of people and goods. Throughout the past half century, international travel has skyrocketed; there are more than 500 million international arrivals per year. The greatest increase has taken place since the mid-1990s. The world has become integrated and global; consequently, the notion that it is possible to successfully eradicate a disease from the face of the planet has become simplistic. Infectious disease is a moving target and climate shifts will affect any disease that has an environmentally sensitive stage or vector. Recognizingsignalsfromclimatemodelsandincorporatingthemintohealthmeasurescanp- videnewopportunitiesforproactive—ratherthanreactive—approachestopublichealth.Thus, careful attention to the role of the oceans in human health can offer new avenues of research that will provide new means of predicting and preventing those diseases that are rooted in the environment. In this volume, pathogens in the sea are reviewed by Colin Munn, who provides a broader perspective for the topic of pathogenic microorganisms associated with the world oceans.

• aquaculture
• bacteria
• ecology
• environment
• virus

• Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

  Shimshon Belkin

• University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

  Rita R. Colwell

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