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Association Scientifique Européenne pour l'Eau et la Santé
Journal Européen d'Hydrologie
Siège social : 4, avenue de l'Observatoire 75 270 Paris cedex 06
C.C.P. La source N° 315 87 49 N N° SIRET 303334 650 000 15 - Code APE 731 Association déclarée à la préfecture de Paris Publication J.O. du 22 déc
Contact : gilles.husson@univ-paris5.fr
Sommaire :
Journal Européen d’Hydrologie, tome 34, fasc. 1, 2003, p. 11 à 44 :
Y a-t-il des infections bactériennes opportunistes
transmises par les eaux d’alimentation ?
ARE THERE OPPORTUNISTIC BACTERIAL INFECTIONS
FROM DRINKING WATER ?
HENRI LECLERC
Faculté de Médecine de Lille et Institut Pasteur de Lille, France
Email : hleclerc@univ-lille2.fr
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Résumé
La présence de certaines bactéries dites « pathogènes opportunistes » dans
les eaux d’alimentation est sujet à débat. Il s’agit des Legionella, de P. aeruginosa,
des Aeromonas et des bactéries du complexe M. avium. L’analyse des données
montre que le risque de légionellose est présent et qu’il est plus élevé pour
les populations sensibles, en particulier en milieu hospitalier. Les établissements
de santé doivent définir des plans de sécurité sanitaire pour contrôler les risques
inhérents à ces populations spécifiques. Il n’existe aucun lien significatif entre les
bactéries HPC de l’eau d’alimentation et des infections entériques. Les eaux
minérales naturelles ont un statut particulier parmi les eaux d’alimentation. Les
populations bactériennes qui se développent naturellement dans ces eaux sont
dénuées de pouvoir pathogène.
Mots clés: évaluation des risques, bactéries opportunistes, HPC (Heterotrophic
Plate Count), eau d’alimentation, eau minérale naturelle.
Abstract
This paper reviews the epidemiological evidence concerning whether HPC
bacteria pose a risk to human health. We first consider epidemiological studies
that have attempted to identify associations between gastro-intestinal illness in
humans and some specific bacteria named «opportunistic pathogen bacteria » that
can be considered as heterotrophic bacteria. There is no evidence of association of
strains of P. aeruginosa, Aeromonas and M. avium complex with enteric infection
through the water-borne route among the general population. However the public
health significance of inhalation exposure to some Legionella has been demonstrated.
Health care facilities including hospitals, health centres, dialysis centres and
dental consulting room, representing a general area of concern for infection
control because populations at increased risk, should have general water safety
plans, being part of their infection control strategy. Such plans should be apply to
control of external contamination by P. aeruginosa, and Legionella. We next consider
those studies that have investiged the epidemiology of HPC bacteria. The strong
evidence from these studies is that there is no such association.
Natural mineral water is typical example of not vulnerable groundwater, i.e.,
not under the direct influence of surface water. Contrasting with treated drinking
water, natural mineral waters cannot be subjected to any type of disinfection that
modifies or eliminates their biological components, and they always contain heterotrophic
bacteria (HPC) that are primarily a natural component of these waters.
Overall experimental and epidemiologial data show that autochtonous bacteria of
natural mineral waters have never brought about detectable pathological disorders
in human or animals and, in vitro, are incapable of directly damaging human
cells in tissue culture. Since the existence of european regulations dating from
1980 (EC, 1980), no outbreak or single case of disease due to the consumption of
natural mineral water has been recorded in the literature, or by the health authorities
of the countries within the European Community.
Key-words: risk assessment, opportunistic bacteria, HPC (Heterotrophic
Plate Count), drinking water, natural mineral water.
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