Sanitation&Disease

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Sanitation and Disease
Health Aspects of Excreta and Wastewater Management

By Richard Feachem, David Bradley, Hemda Garelick & Duncan Mara

John Wiley & Sons, 1983

Contents Preface Acronyms & Abbreviations

Part I: The Health Hazards of Excreta: Theory & Control

1. Elements and health risks of excreta and wastewater
2. Environmental classification of excreta-related infections
3. The risks of excreta to public health
4. Detection, removal and survival of pathogens in the environment
5. Health aspects of excreta and night soil systems
6. Health aspects of sewage systems
7. Reuse of excreta and discharge of effluents
8. The human element in sanitation systems

Part II: Environmental Biology and Epidemiology of Specific Excreted Pathogens

Section I: Excreted viruses
9. Enteroviruses, poliomyelitis, and similar viral infections
10. Hepatitis A virus and infectious hepatitis
11. Rotavirus and viral gastroenteritis

Section II: Excreted bacteria
12. Campylobacter and Campylobacter enteritis
13. Pathogenic and nonpathogenic Escherichia coli and other bacterial indicators of faecal pollution
14. Leptospira and leptospirosis
15. Salmonella, enteric fevers and salmonelloses
16. Shigella and shigellosis
17. Vibrio cholerae and cholera
18. Yersinia and yersiniosis

Section III: Excreted protozoa
19. Balantidium and balantidiasis
20. Entamoeba histolytica and amebiasis
21. Giardia and giardiasis

Section IV: Excreted helminths
22. Ancylostoma, Necator, and ancylostomiasis
23. Ascaris and ascariasis
24. Clonorchis and chlonorchiasis

25. Diphyllobothrium and diphyllobothriasis
26. Enterobius and enterobiasis
27. Fasciola and fascioliasis
28. Fasciolopsis and fasciolopsciasis
29. Hymenolepsis and hymenolepiasis
30. Minor intestinal flukes and infections they cause
31. Paragonimus and paragonimiasis
32. Schistosoma and schistosomiasis
33. Strongyloides and strongyloidiasis
34. Taenia, taeniasis, and cysticercosis
35. Trichuris and trichuriasis

Section V: Insects and excreta
36. Culex pipiens mosquitoes and the transmission of Bancroftian filiariasis
37. Flies, cockroaches and excreta

Duncan Mara School of Civil Engineering University of Leeds