Potentially pathogenic amoeba-associated microorganisms in cooling towers and their control

Future Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 615-629

  Pagnier, Isabella ^a   Merchat, Michèle ^b   La Scola, Bernard ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b Climespace   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; AMOEBA; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BIOFILM; CILIATE; COOLING TOWER; DISINFECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; LAW; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; PROTOZOON; REVIEW; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY;

AIR CONDITIONING; AMOEBA; ANIMALS; DISINFECTION; HUMANS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; VIRUSES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 67149086817     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fmb.09.25     Document Type: Review

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