Waterborne Pathogens and Their Surrogates: Advances in Surveillance and Risk Assessment
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water and One Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2023) | Viewed by 183
Special Issue Editors
Interests: coastal ecology; waterborne zoonoses; seafood safety; indicator bacteria; epidemiology; community ecology; food safety
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Waterborne pathogens are responsible for millions of cases of human illness annually, thus creating a significant burden on health infrastructure worldwide. Though many advances have been made in the methodological approaches for detecting these pathogens (bacteria, viruses, and parasites), surveillance in the environment is typically limited to the monitoring for indicators of their presence and modelling the risk associated with exposure to those surrogates.
This Special Issue, entitled “Waterborne Pathogens and Their Surrogates: Advances in Surveillance and Risk Assessment”, focuses on methodological improvements in the detection of indicators of potentially pathogenic organisms, including biological and environmental surrogates, and advances in the modelling of human health risks associated with exposure to either the surrogates or the pathogens themselves.
Contributions may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Improvements in the detection and modelling of sources of microbial contributions to aquatic environments;
- Epidemiological modelling of exposure probabilities and disease risk from waterborne pathogens;
- Progress in the use of non-biological indicators of microbial water quality and disease risk.
All related manuscripts are welcome, including principal data collected via field observations as well as meta-analyses of existing microbial datasets. Manuscripts describing experimental or theoretical approaches will also be considered.
With this Special Issue, we aim to sharing new and advanced knowledge with resource managers, policymakers, regulators, and fellow researchers with the hope of improving the way we monitor for and reduce waterborne diseases in the future.
Dr. Melissa Partyka
Prof. Ronald F. Bond
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- waterborne disease
- epidemiology
- risk assessment
- microbial indicators
- water quality
- pathogen surveillance
- environmental microbiology
- public health
- irrigation water
- beach monitoring
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