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HEALTH-RELATED WATER MICROBIOLOGY

International Water Association, Specialist Group

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 Publications

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

Featured Publications

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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