Impact of building closures during the COVID-19 pandemic on Legionella infection risks

Prolonged building closures are prevalent during the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in extreme stagnation in building water systems. High-throughput sequencing analysis revealed significantly increased presence of Legionella due to extreme water stagnation, highlighting elevated exposure risks to Legi...

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Autores principales: Liang, Jiayu, Swanson, Clifford S., Wang, Liang, He, Qiang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8447490/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34537274
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2021.09.008
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description Prolonged building closures are prevalent during the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in extreme stagnation in building water systems. High-throughput sequencing analysis revealed significantly increased presence of Legionella due to extreme water stagnation, highlighting elevated exposure risks to Legionella from building water systems during re-opening of previously closed buildings.
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spelling pubmed-84474902021-09-17 Impact of building closures during the COVID-19 pandemic on Legionella infection risks Liang, Jiayu Swanson, Clifford S. Wang, Liang He, Qiang Am J Infect Control Brief Report Prolonged building closures are prevalent during the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in extreme stagnation in building water systems. High-throughput sequencing analysis revealed significantly increased presence of Legionella due to extreme water stagnation, highlighting elevated exposure risks to Legionella from building water systems during re-opening of previously closed buildings. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021-12 2021-09-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8447490/ /pubmed/34537274 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2021.09.008 Text en © 2021 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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