دورية أكاديمية

The coastal environment and human health: microbial indicators, pathogens, sentinels and reservoirs

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: The coastal environment and human health: microbial indicators, pathogens, sentinels and reservoirs
المؤلفون: Stewart, Jill R, Gast, Rebecca J, Fujioka, Roger S, Solo-Gabriele, Helena M, Meschke, J Scott, Amaral-Zettler, Linda A, del Castillo, Erika, Polz, Martin F, Collier, Tracy K, Strom, Mark S, Sinigalliano, Christopher D, Moeller, Peter DR, Holland, A Fredrick
المصدر: Environmental Health, 7(Suppl 2)
بيانات النشر: BioMed Central Ltd
سنة النشر: 2008
المجموعة: Carolina Digital Repository (UNC - University of North Carolina)
الوصف: Innovative research relating oceans and human health is advancing our understanding of disease-causing organisms in coastal ecosystems. Novel techniques are elucidating the loading, transport and fate of pathogens in coastal ecosystems, and identifying sources of contamination. This research is facilitating improved risk assessments for seafood consumers and those who use the oceans for recreation. A number of challenges still remain and define future directions of research and public policy. Sample processing and molecular detection techniques need to be advanced to allow rapid and specific identification of microbes of public health concern from complex environmental samples. Water quality standards need to be updated to more accurately reflect health risks and to provide managers with improved tools for decision-making. Greater discrimination of virulent versus harmless microbes is needed to identify environmental reservoirs of pathogens and factors leading to human infections. Investigations must include examination of microbial community dynamics that may be important from a human health perspective. Further research is needed to evaluate the ecology of non-enteric water-transmitted diseases. Sentinels should also be established and monitored, providing early warning of dangers to ecosystem health. Taken together, this effort will provide more reliable information about public health risks associated with beaches and seafood consumption, and how human activities can affect their exposure to disease-causing organisms from the oceans.
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
اللغة: English
العلاقة: https://doi.org/10.17615/zp8s-6059Test; https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/downloads/ff365768f?file=thumbnailTest; https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/downloads/ff365768fTest
DOI: 10.17615/zp8s-6059
الإتاحة: https://doi.org/10.17615/zp8s-6059Test
https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/downloads/ff365768f?file=thumbnailTest
https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/downloads/ff365768fTest
حقوق: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0Test/
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.7502B280
قاعدة البيانات: BASE