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- Guide for public health personnel to investigate reports of waterborne illnesses
- Based on effective epidemiologic principles and investigative techniques for determining causal factors of disease incidence
- Lessons learned from outbreak investigations can often prevent their future occurrence
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (1 chapter)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
The book services as a guide to:
• Develop a waterborne disease surveillance and emergency operations program
• Handle illness alerts and water-related complaints that may be related to illness
• Interview ill persons, those at risk, and controls
• Develop a case definition
• Transport waterspecimens and clinical specimens
• Trace sources of contamination
• Identify factors responsible for contamination, survival of pathogenic microorganisms or toxic substances, and/or propagation of pathogens
• Collate and interpret collected data
• Report information about the outbreak
This edition has been extensively updated. A section has been added on water not intended for drinking as a source of illness. The chapter on “collection and analysis of data” has been significantly expanded to explain how data is collected and used to suggest possible vehicles, routes, and agents. The book is designed to improve the quality of investigation of outbreaks and disease surveillance.
The International Association for Food Protection is a non-profit association of food safety professionals. Dedicated to the life-long educational needs of its Members, IAFP provides Members with an information network through its two scientific journals (Food Protection Trends and Journal of Food Protection), its educational Annual Meeting, international meetings and symposia along with international interaction between food safety professionals.
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International Association for Food Protection, US, USA
International Association for Food Protection
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Procedures to Investigate Waterborne Illness
Authors: International Association for Food Protection
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26027-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: International Association for Food Protection 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-26025-9Published: 20 July 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-26027-3Published: 12 July 2016
Edition Number: 3
Number of Pages: X, 153
Number of Illustrations: 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Food Microbiology, Food Science, Water Quality/Water Pollution, Applied Microbiology