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This chapter contains a review of the most important emerging problems related to infectious diseases that have or may have some relationship to wastewater. It includes pathogenic viruses, bacteria and protozoa, as well as prions, and genes such as those implicated in resistance to antibiotics or virulence factors (which are transferred between different bacteria, and can influence the emergence of more noxious infectious microorganisms). After a short revision of the causes found in the emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases, there is a detailed review of the main emergent infectious agents transmitted by the water route, and whose presence in sewage might have public health implications.
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Blanch, A.R., Jofre, J. (2004). Emerging Pathogens in Wastewaters. In: Barceló, D. (eds) Series Anthropogenic Compounds. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, vol 5I1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/b97178
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