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Published on: March 3, 2012
[Public hygiene, microbiology and water management]
1Ecole nationale de la santé publique, Rennes, France.
Abstract:
Over the last hundred and fifty years, hygienists and health-related water microbiologists have laid down rules of public hygiene and sanitary systems to protect the health of populations. This program has proven to be particularly effective against "fecal peril". But in developed countries waterborne infectious disease nevertheless still persists. This fact has led to much research on contamination due to waterborne micro-organisms. The emergence of the paradigm of risk assessment should allow microbiologists to focus their research effort on priority areas of prevention.
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