Journal
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INFECTION CONTROL
Volume 49, Issue 12, Pages 1564-1566Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2021.09.008
Keywords
Drinking water; Premise plumbing; Stagnation
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Prolonged building closures during the COVID-19 pandemic have led to extreme stagnation in building water systems, resulting in significantly increased presence of Legionella. Re-opening previously closed buildings poses elevated exposure risks to Legionella from building water systems.
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. (c) 2021 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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