Environmental culturing for Legionella: Can we build a better mouse trap?

American Journal of Infection Control

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 341-343

  Stout, Janet E ^a,b   Yu, Victor L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b Special Pathogens Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Legionella

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOFILM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; HOSPITAL INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; IONIZATION; LABORATORY TEST; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77952960927     PISSN: 01966553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2010.02.002     Document Type: Note

References (16)

1. Goetz A.M., Stout J.E., Jacobs S.L., Fisher M.A., Ponzer R.E., Drenning S., et al. Nosocomial Legionnaires' disease discovered in community hospitals following cultures of the water system: seek and ye shall find. Am J Infect Control 26 (1998) 6-11
2. Yu V.L. Resolving the controversy on environmental cultures for Legionella: a modest proposal. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 19 (1998) 893-897
3. Department of Health Mental Hygiene. State of Maryland. Report of the Maryland Scientific Working Group to Study Legionella in Water Systems in Healthcare Institutions, June; 2000.
4. Ditommaso S., Giacomuzzi M., Gentile M., Moriaghi, and Zotti M. Effective environmental sampling strategies for monitoring Legionella spp contamination in hot water systems. Am J Infect Control 38 (2010) 344-349
5. Sabria M., Modol J.M., Garcia-Nunez M., Reynaga E., Pedro-Botet M.L., Gimeno J.M., et al. Environmental cultures and hospital-acquired legionnaires' disease: a 5-year prospective study in 20 hospitals in Catalonia, Spain. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 25 (2004) 1072-1076
6. Stout J.E., Muder R.R., Mietzner S., Wagener M.M., Perri M.B., DeRoos K., et al. Role of environmental surveillance in determining risk for hospital-acquired Legionellosis: a national surveillance study with clinical correlations. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 28 (2007) 818-824
7. Kool J.L., Fiore A.E., Kioski C.M., Brown E.W., Benson R.F., Pruckler J.M., et al. More than ten years of unrecognized nosocomial transmission of Legionnaires' disease among transplant patients. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 19 (1998) 898-904
8. Allegheny County Health Department. Approaches to prevention and control of Legionella infection in Allegheny County health care facilities. 2nd ed. Pittsburgh, PA: 1997.
9. Ta A.C., Stout J.E., Yu V.L., and Wagener M.M. Comparison of culture methods for monitoring Legionella species in hospital potable water systems and recommendations for standardization of such methods. J Clin Microbiol 33 (1995) 2118-2123
10. Rioux C, Giraud E, Deforges L, Girou E, Legrand P. Swabbing: a simpler technique to detect Legionella contamination in hot water systems. no. 341. Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 2003; Chicago, IL: American Society for Microbiology; 2003.
11. Halabi M., Wiesholzer-Pittl M., Schoberl J., and Mittermayer H. Non-touch fittings in hospitals: a possible source of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Legionella spp. J Hosp Infect 49 (2001) 117-121
12. Hosein I.K., Hill D.W., Tan T.Y., Butchart E.G., Wilson K., Finlay G., et al. Point-of-care controls for nosocomial legionellosis combined with chlorine dioxide potable water decontamination: a two-year survey at a Welsh teaching hospital. J Hosp Infect 61 (2005) 100-106
13. Kusnetsov J., Torvinen E., Perola O., Nousianien T., and Katila M.L. Colonization of hospital water systems by legionellae, mycobacteria, and other heterotrophic bacteria potentially hazardous to risk group patients. APMIS 111 (2003) 546-556
14. Department of Veterans Affairs. VHA Directive 2008-2010. Prevention of Legionella disease. Washington, DC. 2008.
15. Stout JE. Preventing legionellosis. ASHRAE Journal. American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, Air-Conditioning Engineers Inc, Atlanta, GA. 2007;49:58-61.
16. Shih H.Y., and Lin Y.E. Efficacy of copper-silver ionization in controlling biofilm- and plankton-associated waterborne pathogens. Appl Environ Microbiol 76 (2010) 2032-2035