Charles N. Haas & Joan B. Rose 
Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment 

Provides the latest QMRA methodologies to determine infection risk
cause by either accidental microbial infections or deliberate
infections caused by terrorism

* Reviews the latest methodologies to quantify at every
step of the microbial exposure pathways, from the first release of
a pathogen to the actual human infection

* Provides techniques on how to gather
information, on how each microorganism moves through the
environment, how to determine their survival rates on various
media, and how people are exposed to the microorganism

* Explains how QMRA can be used as a tool to measure the
impact of interventions and identify the best policies and
practices to protect public health and safety

* Includes new information on genetic methods

* Techniques use to develop risk models for drinking
water, groundwater, recreational water, food and pathogens in the
indoor environment

Innehållsförteckning

Preface

1. Motivation

2. Microbial Agents and Transmission

3. Risk Assessment Paradigms

4. Conducting the Hazard Identification (HAZ ID)

5. Analytical Methods and the QMRA Framework: Developing Occurrence and Exposure Databases

6. Exposure Assessment

7. Predictive Microbiology

8. Conducting the Dose Response Assessment

9. Uncertainty

10. Population Disease Transmission

11. Risk Characterization and Decision Making

Om författaren

Charles N. Haas is the head of the department of Civil,
Architectural and Environmental Engineering at Drexel University
and the Betz Chair Professor of Environmental Engineering. He
has served on numerous advisory committees of the US EPA and the
National Research Council

Joan Rose serves as the Homer Nowlin Chair in Water
Research at Michigan State University, the Co-Director of the
Center for Advancing Microbial Risk Assessment (CAMRA) and the
Director of the Center for Water Sciences (CWS). She is a
member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Charles P. Gerba is a Professor in the department of
Soil, Water and Environmental Science at the University of Arizona.
He is the author of 11 books and over 400 journal papers. Dr. Gerba
is a member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Science
Advisory Board Committees on Drinking Water and Research
Strategies.