Research project: Legionella control in buildings
A collaboration between Eawag, the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and the Cantonal Laboratory of Zurich
Over the past five years, the LeCo project investigated various topics related to Legionella, including risk assessment, source identification, detection methods, ecology, and control strategies in building …
Over the past five years, five multidisciplinary research groups collaborated under the LeCo project to investigate a wide range of questions surrounding Legionella and Legionnaires’ disease. , …
A good water boiler/heater establishes an energy-efficient thermal barrier against opportunistic pathogens in building distribution systems. While this appears to be straightforward, evaluating the temperature distribution and …
The 7th ESGLI Meeting was held from 23-25 October in Crete. The meeting brought together a group of Legionella experts from around the world, and covered a …
In another LeCo seminar, invited speaker Dr. Markus Petzold gives an insight into the methodology and relevance of fine typing of legionella.
Harnessing information from routinely collected data of notifiable diseases such as Legionnaires’ disease forms the basis for epidemiological assessments and is of great importance for extensive research …
