Cover -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Overview of Health-Related Water Virology -- Historical perspective -- Impact of human viruses in water -- Quality guidelines -- References -- Chapter 2. Waterborne Gastroenteritis Viruses -- Introduction -- Calicivirus -- Rotavirus -- Astroviruses -- Adenovirus -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3. Enteric Hepatitis Viruses -- Background -- Hepatitis A -- Hepatitis E -- References -- Chapter 4. Enteroviruses with Special Reference to Poliovirus and Poliomyelitis Eradication -- Background -- Detection and identification of enteroviruses -- Old and new identification methods -- Incongruous distribution of serotypes as compared to clinical isolates -- Monitoring the progress of the poliomyelitis eradication initiative -- Environmental surveillance of poliovirus circulation -- Evaluation of the persistence of OPV-derived viruses in the population after an OPV/IPV switch -- Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 5. Virus Occurrence and Survival in the Environmental Waters -- Background -- Factors controlling virus survival -- Occurrence of human viruses in water -- Data gaps and the future -- References -- Chapter 6. Virus Removal During Drinking Water Treatment -- Introduction -- Potential for reduction of viruses during water treatment -- Virus reduction by removal during water treatment -- Virus inactivation during water treatment -- Risk to humans from viruses in drinking water -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Chapter 7. Global Supply of Virus-Safe Drinking Water -- WHO guidelines for drinking water quality -- Water safety plans -- Concluding remarks and recommendations -- References -- Chapter 8. Waterborne Viruses: Assessing the Risks -- Introduction -- Quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA) -- Building models: a regulatory tool? -- Conclusion -- References.

Chapter 9. The Detection of Waterborne Viruses -- Concentration methods -- Detection and enumeration of waterborne viruses -- References -- Chapter 10. Viruses in Shellfish -- Background -- Enteric viruses causing shellfish-associated disease -- Economic importance of shellfish and impact of viral disease -- Biology of shellfish and interactions with ingested enteric viruses -- Virus detection methods -- Detection of viral contamination in shellfish -- Evaluation of outbreaks: lessons learned and remaining questions -- References -- Chapter 11. Indicators of Waterborne Enteric Viruses -- Introduction -- Indicator concept -- Conventional bacterial indicators -- Alternative indicators for viruses -- Characteristics of potential indicator bacteriophages -- Detection and enumeration methods -- Bacteriophages in faeces -- Bacteriophages in faecal wastes -- Bacteriophages as indexes of human viruses -- Bacteriophages as indicators -- Which group of bacteriophages better surrogates human viruses? -- References -- Chapter 12. Quality Control, Environmental Monitoring and Regulations -- Quality control -- Monitoring -- Regulations -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Chapter 13. Recent Advances and Future Needs in Environmental Virology -- The global water quality inventory and environmental virology: status and implications -- Advanced pathogen detection and discovery -- Prediction of the future: trends and needs in environmental virology -- References -- List of Contributors -- Index.