Best practice approach to the risk management of Legionella infection in health care facilities
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Methods WSP is based on a strategy integrating surveillance, maintenance, continuous chlorine-based disinfection and end-point filtration in critical areas. The strategy includes also molecular typing of the isolates and virulence genes expression analysis to detect the occurrence of adaptative changes in strains colonizing the water system.Recently, monochloramine treatment was applied in selected areas.
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