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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2018

Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment and Opportunist Waterborne Infections⁻Are There Too Many Gaps to Fill?

Richard Bentham, Harriet Whiley

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Assessing the long-term health risk of non-potable greywater reuse options based on four selected bacterial pathogens.Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research · 2025
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  4. Surveillance ofMicroorganisms · 2022
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  5. Coronavirus: occurrence, surveillance, and persistence in wastewater.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2021
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  6. Public Health Risks Associated with Heavy Metal and Microbial Contamination of Drinking Water in Australia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Richard BenthamCollege of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, Australia. Richard.Bentham@flinders.edu.au.
Harriet WhileyCollege of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, Australia. Harriet.Whiley@flinders.edu.au.ORCID 0000-0001-8940-3508
Flinders University · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA) is a relatively new approach in identifying health risks associated with the ubiquitous presence of pathogens and opportunists in the human environment. The methodology builds on experimental and meta-analytical data to identify measurable factors that contribute to, and can quantify, the likely extent of disease given a particular exposure. Early modelling was particularly focused on food-borne disease, and subsequently water-borne disease, with the emphasis focused on ingestion and its role in enteric disease. More recently, there has been a focus on translating these principles to opportunist waterborne infections (OWI) with primary focus on

Indexed as

Water MicrobiologyWater PollutionWater SupplyHumansLegionellaLegionellosisPublic HealthRisk AssessmentWaterborne Diseasesdrinking watermanufactured water systemsMycobacterium aviumnon-tuberculous mycobacteriaopportunistic pathogensPseudomonaspublic healthQMRArisk assessment

Identifiers

PMID29865180
PMCPMC6025005
OpenAlexW2807318272

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Registered trials

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