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Legionnaire Disease
Studies from M.T. Garcia and co-authors have provided new information about legionnaire disease
September 30th, 2008
In this recent report, researchers in Madrid, Spain conducted a study "To study the persistence of Legionella over time in different disinfected facilities and analysing whether failures in bacterial eradication could be the result of a decrease in the susceptibility of the persistent strains to subsequent treatments. A long-term environmental surveillance was carried out in three different facilities associated with cases of Legionnaires' disease (a hospital, a fishing boat and a hotel)." "Despite several hyperchlorination episodes, amplified fragment length polymorphism, pulsed field gel electrophoresis-SfiI and arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction methods...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-09-30)
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