Timothy A. Bartrand

Record: found Abstract: found Article: found Author(s): , , Publication date (Electronic): There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience. An assessment of the public health risk posed by Legionella pneumophila in public drinking water was performed on a dataset of 9181 samples collected by 57 water utilities. Overall, 109 (1.19%) samples were positive for L.

1 Legionella pneumophila in Water Unlike fecal/oral pathogens (like Salmonella or Shigella) whose presence in treated drinking water is always an indication of a failure in a treatment barrier, opportunistic pathogens, such as Legionella pneumophila, are normal inhabitants of the aquatic environment and can be detected in even well-operated water systems (LeChevallier et al. 2024). Under the right conditions of temperature, nutrients, and low disinfectant residuals, L.