Microbial Insult to Diving Personnel: Perspectives on the Impact of Radioactive and Chemical Pollutants

摘要

This presentation will (a) review the importance of host resistance factors, which if compromised can permit infections to occur due to either pathogenic or opportunistic organisms in the aquatic environment; (b) describe virulence factors of organisms which enable them to be pathogenic for divers; (c) present a rationale for determining the existence of virulence factors in suspected pathogens and (d) discuss the 'state of the art technology' presently available for detecting these microbial virulence factors.