Bacterial culture through selective and non-selective conditions: the evolution of culture media in clinical microbiology

M Bonnet, JC Lagier, D Raoult, S Khelaifia - New microbes and new …, 2020 - Elsevier
Microbiology has been largely developed thanks to the discovery and optimization of culture
media. The first liquid artificial culture medium was created by Louis Pasteur in 1860 …

Legionnaires' disease: update on diagnosis and treatment

D Viasus, V Gaia, C Manzur-Barbur… - Infectious Diseases and …, 2022 - Springer
Legionellosis is the infection caused by bacteria of the genus Legionella, including a non-
pneumonic influenza-like syndrome, and Legionnaires' disease is a more serious illness …

A review of removal of pollutants from water/wastewater using different types of nanomaterials

MT Amin, AA Alazba, U Manzoor - Advances in materials …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The rapidly increasing population, depleting water resources, and climate change resulting
in prolonged droughts and floods have rendered drinking water a competitive resource in …

Characterization of bacterial communities in wastewater with enhanced taxonomic resolution by full-length 16S rRNA sequencing

D Numberger, L Ganzert, L Zoccarato, K Mühldorfer… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Wastewater treatment is crucial to environmental hygiene in urban environments. However,
wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) collect chemicals, organic matter, and …

Detection of contaminants in water supply: A review on state-of-the-art monitoring technologies and their applications

SN Zulkifli, HA Rahim, WJ Lau - Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2018 - Elsevier
Water monitoring technologies are widely used for contaminants detection in wide variety of
water ecology applications such as water treatment plant and water distribution system. A …

Improving the health and welfare of people who live in slums

RJ Lilford, O Oyebode, D Satterthwaite… - The lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
In the first paper in this Series we assessed theoretical and empirical evidence and
concluded that the health of people living in slums is a function not only of poverty but of …

Current and emerging Legionella diagnostics for laboratory and outbreak investigations

JW Mercante, JM Winchell - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
Legionnaires' disease (LD) is an often severe and potentially fatal form of bacterial
pneumonia caused by an extensive list of Legionella species. These ubiquitous freshwater …

Sanitation and health

D Mara, J Lane, B Scott, D Trouba - PLoS medicine, 2010 - journals.plos.org
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Browse Current Issue Journal Archive Special Issues Collections Find and Read Articles …

Probable person-to-person transmission of Legionnaires' disease

AM Correia, JS Ferreira, V Borges… - … England Journal of …, 2016 - Mass Medical Soc
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Medicine Skip to main content The New England Journal of Medicine homepage Advanced …

Legionnaires' disease

BA Cunha, A Burillo, E Bouza - The Lancet, 2016 - thelancet.com
Since first identified in early 1977, bacteria of the genus Legionella are recognised as a
common cause of community-acquired pneumonia and a rare cause of hospital-acquired …