The contamination was ultimately traced to a source that had been identified 22 years earlier as a risk. The operators of the system were oblivious to this danger and the regulators responsible for safe drinking water largely overlooked the problems that existed. This case study documents the ...
百度试题 结果1 题目The ___ of the disease was traced back to contaminated water.相关知识点: 试题来源: 解析 答案:origin 反馈 收藏
The most famous example is that of John Snow who was able to link cholera transmission to water contamination during the London cholera epidemic of 1854 by comparing the deaths from those households served by the Southwark and Vauxhall Company versus those served by another water company. John Sno...
In total, 127 cases were identified, and the source was traced to the home’s air conditioning cooling towers. 2011 Dayton, Ohio Contaminated hospital air conditioning resulted in 11 cases of Legionnaire’s Disease and 5 deaths. At the time, this was largest outbreak in Ohio since 1994. ...
Postoperative Serratia marcescens wound infections traced to an out-of-hospital source J. Infect. Dis., 175 (1997), pp. 992-995 CrossrefView in ScopusGoogle Scholar 94. J.E. Patterson, J. Vecchio, E.L. Pantelick, P. Farrel, D. Mazon, M.J. Zervos, W.J. Hierholzer Jr. Association...
Near the Broad Street well was a cesspool that contained the waste and garbage of the neighborhood. Snow believed that sewage from the cesspool had contaminated the drinking water. He begged the board of trustees of the St. James Parish to remove the handle from the pump to prevent people ...
“Waakye” had been observed to be significantly associated with FBD in Ghana [14] though contaminated water source was the main item implicated in that outbreak. The features of this outbreak is consistent with toxin-producing pathogen contamination. Relatively longer incubation periods among those ...
diseases cannot be controlled if the public has no awareness of prevention and control measures against cholera and other forms of gastroenteritis, and that in most parts of the country, sewage is continuously contaminating streams, lakes, springs, wells, and other drinking water sources (Qasim ...
Several types of Actinobacteria, and in particular the order Actinomycetales, are slow-growing microbes, and found in large numbers wherever there is soil and fresh water, particularly in moldy hay. They can be inhaled as hyphae or spores, and Actinomycete spores from contaminated hay may be ...
insufficient addition of chlorine to the water) in Western Australia22.B. pseudomalleiis also commonly found in unchlorinated water supplies and drinking water in rural areas in Thailand23. Nosocomial (originating in a hospital) infections have been attributed toB. pseudomallei-contaminated wound irrigat...