Health & Medicine Week
Welcome to NewsRx!
Learn more about a six-week, no-risk free trial of Health & Medicine Week
We're a pay-per-view site for premium content. If you'd like to purchase this article, it's only $3.00.
Legionnaire Disease
Study finds environmental tests help predict hospital-acquired Legionnaires' disease risk
September 3rd, 2007
A new study spearheaded by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine has determined that environmental monitoring of institutional water systems can help to predict the risk of hospital-acquired Legionella pneumonia, better known as Legionnaires’ disease. Reported recently in the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the 20-hospital study also calls for reconsideration of the current national infection-control policy to include routine testing of hospital water systems for Legionella, the bacterial group associated with Legionnaires’. “Only those hospitals that had high levels of Legionella bacteria in their water systems had patients who contracted...
Source: Health & Medicine Week (2007-09-03)
|
