Uncertainties associated with assessing the public health risk from Legionella

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Whiley, Harriet ^a   Keegan, Alexandra ^b   Fallowfield, Howard ^a   Ross, Kirstin ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SA WATER   (Australia)

Author keywords

L. pneumophila; Legionella; Legionellosis; Public health; QMRA; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST; EXPOSURE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEGIONELLA; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT;

LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA;

EID: 84907687720     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00501     Document Type: Article

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