Quantitative microbial risk assessment /

• Main Author: Haas, Charles N.
• Other Authors: Rose, Joan B., Gerba, Charles P., 1945-
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, [2014]
• Edition: Second edition.
• Subjects: Communicable diseases > Epidemiology > Methodology.; Health risk assessment.; Infection > Mathematical models.; Environmental health > Mathematical models.; MEDICAL > Pharmacology.; Communicable diseases > Epidemiology.; Electronic books.

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 a...

Table of Contents:

• Motivation
• Microbial agents and transmission
• Risk assessment paradigms
• Conducting the hazard identification (HAZ ID)
• Analytical methods and QMRA framework
• Exposure assessment
• Predictive microbiology
• Conducting the dose-response assessment
• Uncertainty
• Population disease transmission
• Risk characterization and decision making.