Drinking water may be a risk factor for human infections if the water supply is contaminated with biofilm producing bacteria such as Legionella pneumophilae or Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Several situations have to be con...
Summary: Drinking water may be a risk factor for human infections if the water supply is contaminated with biofilm producing bacteria such as Legionella pneumophilae or Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Several situations have...
Sixty six water samples were collected from inlets, inside and outlets of cooling towers (22 samples each, once a week). Samples were screened for bacterial colonization with special focus on Legionella. Percentage ...
After the declaration of the first case of Legionnaire's disease in Cameroon in 2007, the Centre Pasteur of Cameroon implemented the detection method for Legionella. The introduction of this new method was put in pla...
In this study the authors compared the sequence types (STs) designed by sequence based typing (SBT) of 4 clinical and 12 environmental strains of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 (LP1) which were isolated from...