Oceans and Health:: Pathogens in the Marine Environment

1. Pathogens in the Sea: An Overview
2. Diversity, Sources, and Detection of Human Bacterial Pathogens in the Marine Environment
3. Biotic and Abiotic Effects.
4. Survival of Enteric Bacteria in Seawater: Molecular Aspects
5. Human Pathogenic Viruses in the Marine Environment
6. Survival of Viruses in the Marine Environment
7. Zoonotic Protists in the Marine Environment
8. Marine and Estuarine Harmful Algal Blooms: Impacts on Human and Animal Health
9. Pathogenic Vibrio Species in the Marine and Estuarine Environment
10. Vibrio vulnificus
11. Vibrio parahaemolyticus—Seafood Safety and Associations with Higher Organisms
12. Global Microbial Ecology of Vibrio cholerae
13. Gram-Positive Bacteria in the Marine Environment
14. Fecal Contamination in Coastal Areas: An Engineering Approach
15. Retention of Pathogenicity in Viable Nonculturable Pathogens
16. Thalassogenic Infectious Diseases Caused by Wastewater Pollution of the Marine Environment
17. Bacterial Pathogens of Marine Fish
18. Microbial Diseases of Corals
19. Aquaculture and Animal Pathogens in the Marine Environment with Emphasis on Marine Shrimp Viruses

It is surprising how little is actually known about the fate of wastewater bacteria once they enter the sea. This wide-ranging work is one of the first to unravel the mechanisms determining bacterial sensitivity or survival under these conditions