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Oceans and Health - Pathogens in the Marine Environment
Edited by Shimshon S Belkin and Rita R Colwell
Springer
October 2005
Hardcover XIV, 464 p. 49 illus ISBN 0387237089
£70.00
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The release of non-disinfected wastewaters into the marine environment is a common worldwide practice, in
under-developed as well as in highly developed countries. Consequently, the seas are constantly infused with
wastewater bacteria, among them highly pathogenic ones.
In view of the public health significance of this phenomenon, it is surprising how little is actually known concerning
the fate of such bacteria once they enter the sea. While numerous studies have addressed the effects of various
environmental parameters on colony formation, many of them actually ignore the fact that bacteria can retain
viability and infectivity while losing colony-forming ability.
Only in recent years have efforts also been directed at unraveling the mechanisms determining bacterial sensitivity
or survival under these conditions. This, therefore, is one subject of Oceans and Health: Pathogens in the Marine
Environment: the survival, infectivity, pathogenicity and viability of enteric bacteria in the sea. Chapters also detail
the public health aspects of wastewater release, civil engineering and economic considerations, other sources of
pathogens, and much more.
Written for marine ecologists, marine environmentalists, environmental microbiologists, marine biotechnologists,
epidemiologists, public health practitioners, and civil/wastewater engineers
Contents
- Preface.
- Pathogens in the Sea: An Overview.
- Diversity, Sources, and Detection of Human
Bacterial Pathogens in the Marine Environment.
- Survival of Enteric Bacteria in Seawater: Biotic and Abiotic Effects.
- Survival of Enteric Bacteria in Seawater: Molecular Factors.
- Human Pathogenic Viruses in the Marine Environment.
- Survival of Viruses in the Marine Environment.
- Zoonotic Protists in the Marine Environment.
- Marine and Estuarine Harmful Algal Blooms: Impacts on Human and Animal Health.
- Pathogenic Vibrio Species in Seawater.- Vibrio vulnificus.- Vibrio parahaemolyticus:
- Seafood Safety and Associations with Higher Organisms.
- Role of VBNC in the Ecology and of Vibrio cholerae.
- Gram-positive Bacteria in the Marine Environment.
- Fecal Contamination of Coastal Areas: an Engineering Approach.
- Retention of Pathogenicity in Viable Non-Culturable Pathogens.
- Thalassogenic Infectious Diseases Caused by Wastewater Pollution in the Marine Environment: An Estimate
of Worldwide Occurrence.
- Bacterial Pathogens of Marine Fish.-
- Microbial Diseases of Corals.
- Aquaculture and Animal Pathogens in the Marine Environment.
- Index.
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