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Cholera, diarrhea & dysentery update (07): Americas

Between epidemiological week (EW) 1 and 5 of 2017 [1 Jan-3 Feb 2017], a total of 1897 cholera cases were reported in Haiti, including 28 deaths. In the Dominican Republic, from the beginning of the year to EW 2 of 2017 [1-13 Jan 2017], there were 7 suspected cholera cases and 2 confirmed cases reported, including 1 death.

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Featured Research Articles from Science of The Total Environment (volumes 581–582)

Science of The Total Environment
Volumes 581–582, Pages 1-922 (1 March 2017)

UV-based technologies for marine water disinfection and the application to ballast water: Does salinity interfere with disinfection processes?
Javier Moreno-Andrés, Leonardo Romero-Martínez, Asunción Acevedo-Merino, Enrique Nebot

Spatial and temporal analogies in microbial communities in natural drinking water biofilms
I. Douterelo, M. Jackson, C. Solomon, J. Boxall

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Featured Research Articles from Environmental Science and Technology (volume 51, issue 3)

Environmental Science and Technology
February 7, 2017, Volume 51, Issue 3, Pages 1053-1940

Spatial Models of Sewer Pipe Leakage Predict the Occurrence of Wastewater Indicators in Shallow Urban Groundwater
Patrick R. Roehrdanz, Marina Feraud, Do Gyun Lee, Jay C. Means, Shane A. Snyder and Patricia A. Holden

Free Diffusivity of Icosahedral and Tailed Bacteriophages: Experiments, Modeling, and Implications for Virus Behavior in Media Filtration and Flocculation
Ruth E. Baltus, Appala Raju Badireddy, Armin Delavari and Shankararaman Chellam

Censored Regression Modeling To Predict Virus Inactivation in Wastewaters
Julii Brainard, Katherine Pond and Paul R. Hunter

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Journal of Water and Health
February 2017; Vol. 15, No. 1

Limiting swimming pool outbreaks of cryptosporidiosis – the roles of regulations, staff, patrons and research
Una Ryan, Sheleigh Lawler, and Simon Reid

Psychosocial impacts of the lack of access to water and sanitation in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review
Elijah Bisung and Susan J. Elliott

Cardiovascular diseases and hard drinking waters: implications from a systematic review with meta-analysis of case-control studies
Vincenza Gianfredi, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Daniele Nucci, Milena Villarini, and Massimo Moretti

Source tracking of Enterococcus moraviensis and E. haemoperoxidus
Maja Taučer-Kapteijn, Wim Hoogenboezem, Remco Hoogenboezem, Sander de Haas, and Gertjan Medema

Occurrence of heavy metals and contaminants on the surface of adjacent rivers
Warita Alves de Melo, Carla Afonso da Silva Bitencourt Braga, and Lilian Carla Carneiro

Equilibrium and kinetics study on removal of arsenate ions from aqueous solution by CTAB/TiO2 and starch/CTAB/TiO2 nanoparticles: a comparative study
Pankaj Gogoi, Debasish Dutta, and Tarun Kr. Maji

Accuracy, precision, usability, and cost of portable silver test methods for ceramic filter factories
Rhiana D. Meade, Anna L. Murray, Anjuliee M. Mittelman, Justine Rayner, and Daniele S. Lantagne

Safe drinking water and waterborne outbreaks
N. A. Moreira and M. Bondelind

Radon-222 from different sources of water and the assessment of health hazard
Janet A. Ademola and Oluwaferanmi R. Ojeniran

Characterization and toxicity of a phosphate-binding exobiopolymer produced by Acinetobacter haemolyticus MG606
Taranpreet Kaur and Moushumi Ghosh

Assessment of groundwater quality and health risk in drinking water basin using GIS
Şehnaz Şener, Erhan Şener, and Ayşen Davraz

Assessment of carbon nanotubes and silver nanoparticles loaded clays as adsorbents for removal of bacterial contaminants from water sources
M. E. M. Hassouna, M. A. ElBably, Asmaa N. Mohammed, and M. A. G. Nasser

Ceramic pot filters lifetime study in coastal Guatemala
C. Salvinelli, A. C. Elmore, B. R. García Hernandez, and K. D. Drake

Application of quantitative real-time PCR compared to filtration methods for the enumeration of Escherichia coli in surface waters within Vietnam
Pierangeli G. Vital, Nguyen Thi Van Ha, Le Thi Hong Tuyet, and Kenneth W. Widmer

Norovirus genogroups I and II in environmental water samples from Belém city, Northern Brazil
Dielle Monteiro Teixeira, Paula Katharine de Pontes Spada, Lena Líllian Canto de Sá Morais, Tulio Machado Fumian, Ian Carlos Gomes de Lima, Darleise de Souza Oliveira, Renato da Silva Bandeira, Tereza Cristina Monteiro Gurjão, Maísa Silva de Sousa, Joana D’Arc Pereira Mascarenhas, and Yvone Benchimol Gabbay

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Removal of human pathogenic viruses in a down-flow hanging sponge (DHS) reactor treating municipal wastewater and health risks associated with utilization of the effluent for agricultural irrigation

Water Research, Volume 110, 1 March 2017, Pages 389-398.

Naohiro Kobayashi, Mamoru Oshiki, Toshihiro Ito, Takahiro Segawa, Masashi Hatamoto, Tsuyoshi Kato, Takashi Yamaguchi, Kengo Kubota, Masanobu Takahashi, Akinori Iguchi, Tadashi Tagawa, Tsutomu Okubo, Shigeki Uemura, Hideki Harada, Toshiki Motoyama, Nobuo Araki, Daisuke Sano

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0043135416308077

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