Topics:
- Categories of water-related pathogens (biology, ecology, epidemiology)
- Transmission routes of water-related pathogens
- Emerging and re-emerging water-related pathogens
- Modern aspects of bacterial, viral and protozoan waterborne diseases
- Role of aquatic microorganisms with pathogenic properties
- Invertebrate animals as water-related pathogens (vector-borne diseases)
- Role of cyanobacteria and algae in water-related diseases
- Hygiene of drinking water, recreational waters and wastewater
- Hygiene of water in health-care facilities
- Causes, prevention and control of water-related disease outbreaks
- Mutiple-barrier concept (water abstraction, drinking-water treatment and
distribution, plumbing systems,
monitoring)
- Hygienic relevance of aquatic biofilms
- Surveillance and quality control, risk assessment
- Legal regulations, role of public health authorities
- Microbiological methods for assessment of hygienic quality of water
- Lehrende(r): Jost Wingender