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. , …
On 8 November, Fabienne Fischer (PhD in the LeCo team) will give an online presentation in English: “The epidemiology of Legionnaires’ disease in Switzerland: A (re-) emerging …
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 …
In Switzerland, the number of Legionnaires’ disease cases more than doubled since 2008 to about 600 cases in 2019. The cause of this increase is not well …
