Legionella detection in wastewater treatment plants with increased risk for Legionella growth and emission

• Main Authors: Harold van den Berg (Author), Willemijn Lodder (Author), Alvin Bartels (Author), Petra Brandsema (Author), Lucie Vermeulen (Author), Gretta Lynch (Author), Sjoerd Euser (Author), Ana Maria de Roda Husman (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: IWA Publishing, 2023-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Legionnaires' disease (LD) is a severe pneumonia mainly caused by the bacterium Legionella pneumophila. Although many environmental sources of LD have been described, the sources of the majority of non-outbreak LD cases have not been identified. In several outbreaks in the Netherlands, wastewat...