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  1. Outbreaks of Shiga Toxin–Producing Escherichia coli Linked to Sprouted Seeds, Salad, and Leafy Greens: A Systematic Review
  2. The implications of three major new trials for the effect of water, sanitation and hygiene on childhood diarrhea and stunting: a consensus statement
  3. Interventions to improve water supply and quality, sanitation and handwashing facilities in healthcare facilities, and their effect on healthcare-associated infections in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and supplementary sco...
  4. Burden of disease from inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene for selected adverse health outcomes: An updated analysis with a focus on low- and middle-income countries
  5. Rapid risk assessment for communicable diseases in humanitarian emergencies: validation of a rapid risk assessment tool for communicable disease risk in humanitarian emergencies
  6. Transmission routes of rare seasonal diseases: the case of norovirus infections
  7. Emerging pathogens and deliberate attacks on European water supplies: a scenario planning workshop
  8. Evolutionary genomics of anthroponosis in Cryptosporidium
  9. A Faecal Contamination Index for interpreting heterogeneous diarrhoea impacts of water, sanitation and hygiene interventions and overall, regional and country estimates of community sanitation coverage with a focus on low- and middle-income countries
  10. Risk factors for communicable diseases in humanitarian emergencies and disasters: Results from a three-stage expert elicitation
  11. Climate, human behaviour or environment: individual-based modelling of Campylobacter seasonality and strategies to reduce disease burden
  12. Anthroponotic transmission of Cryptosporidium parvum predominates in countries with poorer sanitation: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  13. Typhoid fever outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Case control and ecological study
  14. Risk factors and risk factor cascades for communicable disease outbreaks in complex humanitarian emergencies: a qualitative systematic review
  15. Risk factors for Cryptosporidium infection in low and middle income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis
  16. Is water carriage associated with the water carrier’s health? A systematic review of quantitative and qualitative evidence
  17. Limiting global-mean temperature increase to 1.5–2 °C could reduce the incidence and spatial spread of dengue fever in Latin America
  18. What is the impact of water sanitation and hygiene in healthcare facilities on care seeking behaviour and patient satisfaction? A systematic review of the evidence from low-income and middle-income countries
  19. Impact of drinking water, sanitation and handwashing with soap on childhood diarrhoeal disease: updated meta-analysis and meta-regression
  20. Reliability of water supplies in low and middle-income countries: a structured review of definitions and assessment criteria
  21. Carrying water may be a major contributor to disability from musculoskeletal disorders in low income countries: a cross-sectional survey in South Africa, Ghana and Vietnam
  22. Giardia secretome highlights secreted tenascins as a key component of pathogenesis
  23. Forced migrants involved in setting the agenda and designing research to reduce impacts of complex emergencies: combining Swarm with patient and public involvement
  24. After the epidemic: Zika virus projections for Latin America and the Caribbean
  25. Spatio-temporal models to determine association between Campylobacter cases and environment
  26. Genetic characterisation of Norovirus strains in outpatient children from rural communities of Vhembe district/South Africa, 2014–2015
  27. A re-assessment of the safety of silver in household water treatment: rapid systematic review of mammalian in vivo genotoxicity studies
  28. Novel Sampling Method for Assessing Human-Pathogen Interactions in the Natural Environment Using Boot Socks and Citizen Scientists, with Application to Campylobacter Seasonality
  29. Censored Regression Modeling To Predict Virus Inactivation in Wastewaters
  30. Transmission pathways for sporadic Shiga-toxin producing E. coli infections: A systematic review and meta-analysis
  31. Localised transmission hotspots of a typhoid fever outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo
  32. How Do Households Respond to Unreliable Water Supplies? A Systematic Review
  33. Public Health Interventions for Aedes Control in the Time of Zikavirus– A Meta-Review on Effectiveness of Vector Control Strategies
  34. Norovirus prevalence and estimated viral load in symptomatic and asymptomatic children from rural communities of Vhembe district, South Africa
  35. On-plot drinking water supplies and health: A systematic review
  36. Health Outcomes of Exposure to Biological and Chemical Components of Inhalable and Respirable Particulate Matter
  37. Cholera and household water treatment why communities do not treat water after a cholera outbreak: a case study in Limpopo Province
  38. Recommendations for dealing with waste contaminated with Ebola virus: a Hazard Analysis of Critical Control Points approach
  39. Presence and Persistence of Ebola or Marburg Virus in Patients and Survivors: A Rapid Systematic Review
  40. Contextual Factors Among Indiscriminate or Large Attacks on Food or Water Supplies, 1946-2015
  41. Estimating the Incidence of Acute Infectious Intestinal Disease in the Community in the UK: A Retrospective Telephone Survey
  42. Do complexity-informed health interventions work? A scoping review
  43. Risk factors for transmission of Ebola or Marburg virus disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  44. Diagnostic accuracy of calculated serum osmolarity to predict dehydration in older people: adding value to pathology laboratory reports
  45. Cryptosporidium in small water systems in Puerto Rico: a pilot study
  46. Impact of the Provision of Safe Drinking Water on School Absence Rates in Cambodia: A Quasi-Experimental Study
  47. What simple tests are accurate enough to help us to tell which older people are dehydrated?
  48. Risk factors for the misdiagnosis of tuberculosis in the UK, 2001–2011
  49. Comment on “Ebola Virus Persistence in the Environment: State of the Knowledge and Research Needs”
  50. Serological responses to Cryptosporidium antigens in inhabitants of Hungary using conventionally filtered surface water and riverbank filtered drinking water
  51. The prevalence of Giardia infection in dogs and cats, a systematic review and meta-analysis of prevalence studies from stool samples
  52. Needs assessment to strengthen capacity in water and sanitation research in Africa: experiences of the African SNOWS consortium
  53. The Causes and Circumstances of Drinking Water Incidents Impact Consumer Behaviour: Comparison of a Routine versus a Natural Disaster Incident
  54. Systematic review: Hygiene and health: systematic review of handwashing practices worldwide and update of health effects
  55. Global assessment of exposure to faecal contamination through drinking water based on a systematic review
  56. Systematic review: Assessing the impact of drinking water and sanitation on diarrhoeal disease in low- and middle-income settings: systematic review and meta-regression
  57. Burden of disease from inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene in low- and middle-income settings: a retrospective analysis of data from 145 countries
  58. Impact of the Provision of Safe Drinking Water on School Absence Rates in Cambodia: A Quasi-Experimental Study
  59. Climate change and the emergence of vector-borne diseases in Europe: case study of dengue fever
  60. Water source and diarrhoeal disease risk in children under 5 years old in Cambodia: a prospective diary based study
  61. The Effects of Weather and Climate Change on Dengue
  62. The first recorded outbreak of cryptosporidiosis due to Cryptosporidium cuniculus (formerly rabbit genotype), following a water quality incident
  63. Hazard Analysis of Critical Control Points Assessment as a Tool to Respond to Emerging Infectious Disease Outbreaks
  64. The Effectiveness of Public Health Interventions to Reduce the Health Impact of Climate Change: A Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews
  65. Screening for surgical nosocomial infections by crossing databases
  66. Meta-analysis identifies Back Pain Questionnaire reliability influenced more by instrument than study design or population
  67. Longitudinal surveillance of bacteraemia in haematology and oncology patients at a UK cancer centre and the impact of ciprofloxacin use on antimicrobial resistance
  68. Cryptosporidium Pathogenicity and Virulence
  69. Corrigendum to “Health impact of small-community water supply reliability” [Int. J. Hyg. Environ. Health 214 (2011) 162–166]
  70. Emergence of hand contamination with Aspergillus during demolition work
  71. School-based sex education is associated with reduced risky sexual behaviour and sexually transmitted infections in young adults
  72. Does Village Water Supply Affect Children’s Length of Stay in a Therapeutic Feeding Program in Niger? Lessons from a Médecins Sans Frontières Program
  73. Rainwater harvesting in rural Trinidad; a cross sectional, observational study
  74. Assessing rural small community water supply in Limpopo, South Africa: Water service benchmarks and reliability
  75. Contaminated Small Drinking Water Supplies and Risk of Infectious Intestinal Disease: A Prospective Cohort Study
  76. Climate Change and Food Security: Health Impacts in Developed Countries
  77. A new heterogeneous family of telomerically encodedCryptosporidiumproteins
  78. Changes in Causes of Acute Gastroenteritis in the United Kingdom Over 15 Years: Microbiologic Findings From 2 Prospective, Population-Based Studies of Infectious Intestinal Disease
  79. Comment on “Randomized Intervention Study of Solar Disinfection of Drinking Water in the Prevention of Dysentery in Kenyan Children Aged under 5 Years”
  80. Risk of Gastrointestinal Illness Associated with the Consumption of Rainwater: A Systematic Review
  81. Economic assessments of small-scale drinking-water interventions in pursuit of MDG target 7C
  82. Economic crisis and communicable disease control in Europe: A scoping study among national experts
  83. Consensus report: E. coli O104:H4 (HUSEC041) and the potential threat to European water supplies
  84. The Value of Educational Messages Embedded in a Community-Based Approach to Combat Dengue Fever: A Systematic Review and Meta Regression Analysis
  85. Corrigendum
  86. Longitudinal study of infectious intestinal disease in the UK (IID2 study): incidence in the community and presenting to general practice
  87. The Impact of Economic Crises on Communicable Disease Transmission and Control: A Systematic Review of the Evidence
  88. In Response
  89. Health impact of small-community water supply reliability
  90. Identifying possible deaths associated with nosocomial infection in a hospital by data mining
  91. Investigating Vietnam’s Ornamental Bird Trade: Implications for Transmission of Zoonoses
  92. Water Supply and Health
  93. Re-description of Cryptosporidium cuniculus Inman and Takeuchi, 1979 (Apicomplexa: Cryptosporidiidae): Morphology, biology and phylogeny
  94. Communication, perception and behaviour during a natural disaster involving a 'Do Not Drink' and a subsequent 'Boil Water' notice: a postal questionnaire study
  95. Epidemiology of oral yeast colonization and infection in patients with hematological malignancies, head neck and solid tumors
  96. Foreign travel, casual sex, and sexually transmitted infections: systematic review and meta-analysis
  97. Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment of Cryptosporidiosis and Giardiasis from Very Small Private Water Supplies
  98. APPARENT BENEFIT OF WATER FILTERS MAY BE AN ARTIFACT OF STUDY DESIGN
  99. A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Association between Self-Reported Diarrheal Disease and Distance from Home to Water Source
  100. The causes of waterborne disease
  101. Methods for determining disease burden and calibrating national surveillance data in the United Kingdom: the second study of infectious intestinal disease in the community (IID2 study)
  102. Impact on diarrhoeal illness of a community educational intervention to improve drinking water quality in rural communities in Puerto Rico
  103. Foreign travel associated with increased sexual risk: A cohort study
  104. Domestic water carrying and its implications for health: a review and mixed methods pilot study in Limpopo Province, South Africa
  105. Factors determining poor practice in alcoholic gel hand rub technique in hospital workers
  106. Foreign travel associated with increased sexual risk-taking, alcohol and drug use among UK university students: a cohort study
  107. Multi-locus analysis of human infective Cryptosporidium species and subtypes using ten novel genetic loci
  108. Effect of water hardness on cardiovascular mortality: an ecological time series approach
  109. Household Water Treatment in Developing Countries: Comparing Different Intervention Types Using Meta-Regression
  110. A comparison of urinary tract pathology and morbidity in adult populations from endemic and non-endemic zones for urinary schistosomiasis on Unguja Island, Zanzibar
  111. A prospective study of the impact of colonization following hospital admission by glycopeptide-resistant Enterococci on mortality during a hospital outbreak
  112. Perceptions of drinking water quality and risk and its effect on behaviour: A cross-national study
  113. Whole genome amplification (WGA) for archiving and genotyping of clinical isolates of Cryptosporidium species
  114. Sexual behaviour, drugs and alcohol use of international students at a British university: a cross-sectional survey
  115. An assessment of the costs and benefits of interventions aimed at improving rural community water supplies in developed countries
  116. Environmental risk factors for diarrhoea among male schoolchildren in Jeddah City, Saudi Arabia
  117. Microbiological surveillance of private water supplies in England – The impact of environmental and climate factors on water quality
  118. A study of the use and impacts of LifeStraw™ in a settlement camp in southern Gezira, Sudan
  119. Short-term assessment of training of medical students in the use of alcohol-based hand rub using fluorescent-labeled hand rub and skin hydration measurements
  120. Estimating the impact on health of poor reliability of drinking water interventions in developing countries
  121. Using infectious intestinal disease surveillance data to explore illness aetiology; a cryptosporidiosis case study
  122. Bibliometrics, research quality, and neglected tropical diseases
  123. Seasonal hazards and health risks in lower-income countries: field testing a multi-disciplinary approach
  124. A systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions used to reduce exposure to house dust and their effect on the development and severity of asthma
  125. Inferences about the Global Population Structures of Cryptosporidium parvum and Cryptosporidium hominis
  126. A sea change ahead for recreational water quality criteria
  127. Microsatellite Typing of Cryptosporidium parvum in Isolates from a Waterborne Outbreak
  128. Meta-Analysis of Experimental Data Concerning Antimicrobial Resistance Gene Transfer Rates during Conjugation
  129. Sex, drugs and sexually transmitted infections in British university students
  130. Provision of Water in Healthcare Settings
  131. A systematic review of analytical observational studies investigating the association between cardiovascular disease and drinking water hardness
  132. Factors determining vulnerability to diarrhoea during and after severe floods in Bangladesh
  133. Detection of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis from patients with Crohnʼs disease using nucleic acid-based techniques: A systematic review and meta-analysis
  134. How effective is good domestic kitchen hygiene at reducing diarrhoeal disease in developed countries? A systematic review and reanalysis of the UK IID study
  135. The Microbiological Safety of Food in Healthcare Settings
  136. A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Interventions Used to Reduce Exposure to House Dust and Their Effect on the Development and Severity of Asthma
  137. Serological responses to Cryptosporidium in human populations living in areas reporting high and low incidences of symptomatic cryptosporidiosis
  138. Case-control study of environmental and social factors influencing cryptosporidiosis
  139. A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness and safety of atovaquone proguanil (Malarone) for chemoprophylaxis against malaria
  140. Surveillance of waterborne disease in European member states: a qualitative study
  141. Fault tree analysis of the causes of waterborne outbreaks
  142. Estimation of the consumption of cold tap water for microbiological risk assessment: an overview of studies and statistical analysis of data
  143. Treatment of cryptosporidiosis in immunocompromised individuals: systematic review and meta-analysis
  144. Wildlife Trade and the Emergence of Infectious Diseases
  145. A Case-Control Study of Drinking Water and Dairy Products in Crohn's Disease--Further Investigation of the Possible Role of Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis
  146. Prevention and treatment of cryptosporidiosis in immunocompromised patients
  147. Waterborne transmission of protozoan parasites: A worldwide review of outbreaks and lessons learnt
  148. Perceived causes of sporadic cryptosporidiosis and their relation to sources of information
  149. An enquiry into scientific and media discourse in the MMR controversy: Authority and factuality
  150. Classification of bathing water quality based on the parametric calculation of percentiles is unsound
  151. 5. Incubation at 44 °C as a test for faecal coli Clegg LFL, Sherwood HP. J Hyg 1939; 39: 361–374
  152. The zoonotic transmission of Giardia and Cryptosporidium
  153. Animal origins of SARS Coronavirus: possible links with the international trade in small carnivores
  154. Comparison of the InPouch TF Culture System and Wet-Mount Microscopy for Diagnosis of Trichomonas gallinae Infections in the Pink Pigeon Columba mayeri
  155. Health Sequelae of Human Cryptosporidiosis in Immunocompetent Patients
  156. Animal origins of SARS coronavirus: possible links with the international trade in small carnivores
  157. Maternal concentration of polychlorinated biphenyls and dichlorodiphenyl dichlorethylene and birth weight in Michigan fish eaters: a cohort study
  158. The reporting of theoretical health risks by the media: Canadian newspaper reporting of potential blood transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
  159. Risk assessment and drinking water
  160. The survival and persistence of viruses in water
  161. Changes of neoplasm concentration with geographical co-ordinates
  162. National Disease Burden Due to Waterborne Transmission of Nosocomial Pathogens Is Substantially Overestimated
  163. The prevalence of self-reported symptoms of respiratory disease and community belief about the severity of pollution from various sources
  164. A national outbreak of multi-resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium definitive phage type (DT) 104 associated with consumption of lettuce
  165. Assessing Microbial Safety of Drinking Water
  166. What do negative associations between potential risk factors and illness in analytical epidemiological studies of infectious disease really mean?
  167. A Case of Cryptosporidiosis in Pregnancy
  168. Drinking Water and Infectious Disease
  169. Principles and Componentsof Surveillance Systems
  170. Local Surveillance Systems
  171. International Surveillance
  172. Intervention Studies
  173. A Systems Approach to the Investigation and Control of Waterborne Outbreaks
  174. Cryptosporidium Oocysts in a Water Supply Associated with a Cryptosporidiosis Outbreak
  175. A community survey of self-reported gastroenteritis undertaken during an outbreak of cryptosporidiosis strongly associated with drinking water after much press interest
  176. Does calculation of the 95th percentile of microbiological results offer any advantage over percentage exceedence in determining compliance with bathing water quality standards?
  177. Epidemiology and Clinical Features of Cryptosporidium Infection in Immunocompromised Patients
  178. Cryptosporidium in farmed animals: the detection of a novel isolate in sheep
  179. Risk of Invasive Meningococcal Disease among School Workers in Cheshire, United Kingdom
  180. Modelling the impact of prior immunity, case misclassification and bias on case-control studies in the investigation of outbreaks of cryptosporidiosis
  181. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a Delhi teaching hospital
  182. Waterborne Outbreak of Microsporidiosis
  183. Microbiological Aspects of Biofilms and Drinking Water
  184. Emerging threats to drinking water supplies
  185. Management of an outbreak of meningococcal meningitis in a Sudanese refugee camp in Northern Uganda
  186. 16th All Ireland social medicine meeting
  187. Waterborne disease
  188. Hazardous freshwater cyanobacteria (blue-green algae)
  189. A numerical method for allocating microbial isolates to strain types when characterized by typing methods that are not 100% reproducible
  190. Epizootics of Salmonella infection in poultry may be the result of modern selective breeding practices
  191. Laboratory evaluation of a filter for the control of cross-infection during pulmonary function testing
  192. The isolation of Listeria species from fresh-water sites in Cheshire and North Wales
  193. Application of Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) to the handling of expressed breast milk on a neonatal unit
  194. A Critical Review of Typing Methods for Candida albicans and Their Applications
  195. The sub-specific numerical analysis ofCandida albicans
  196. Infection of staff during an outbreak of viral gastroenteritis in an elderly persons' home
  197. A character separation index suitable for binary data containing equivocal responses
  198. Cross-infection and diversity ofCandida albicansstrain carriage in patients and nursing staff on an intensive care unit
  199. Efficient selection of tests for bacteriological typing schemes.
  200. Monitoring the bacteriological quality of potable waters in hospital
  201. Latex agglutination test for detecting CMV antibodies in patients awaiting bone marrow transplantation.
  202. Enterococcal urinary tract infections in a teaching hospital
  203. Use of modified resistogram to type Candida albicans isolated from cases of vaginitis and from faeces in the same geographical area.
  204. Outbreak of Shigella sonnei dysentery on a long stay psychogeriatric ward
  205. Phage typing of Staphylococcus aureus from cases of bacteraemia
  206. Misuse of chilled drink dispensers
  207. False positive results with a tube pregnancy test.