WilliamBAnderson

Hi all…if you’ve wondered about what a cryptosporidiosis outbreak costs in a city of just over 120,000 inhabitants then you’ll be interested in this paper in the journal “Emerging Infectious Diseases.” It contains a very detailed estimate of the costs of a 2007 waterborne outbreak of Cryptosporidium homi­nis which occurred in Galway, western Ireland. The authors’ estimate “that the [...]

Hi all…we’re all well aware of the presence of Legionella in ‘built environments’ and their status as a human pathogen but we know very little about their presence in source water used for drinking water. A study which has just appeared in mSphere fills in some of those knowledge gaps. I found it interesting that the relative abundance [...]

Hi all…just when I thought we had a pretty good handle on protozoan pathogens, a new survey in Shanghai reveals that there are new species being identified in wastewater and combined sewer overflows. Not only are there some such as Enterocytozoon bieneusi that aren’t monitored for in North America but there are new species of Cryptosporidium and Giardia which in some cases [...]

Hi all…a new review on monitoring for opportunistic pathogens in premise plumbing has appeared in the journal ‘Water Research’. It includes information on bacterial pathogens (notably Legionella) but it also deals with a couple of protozoans including Naegleria fowleri which is the causative agent of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis, a rare but particularly lethal disease with a very low [...]