The purpose of this workgroup is to inform and improve practices related to Legionnaires’ disease surveillance and response in local, state, tribal, and territorial settings.
The Water Research Foundation will be hosting a webinar titled "Understanding Analytics and Monitorining Methings for Legionella in Building Water Systems" on Tuesday, September 18th from 3:00-4:30pm EDT (90 minutes). See below for more details, and register here.
The presence of Legionella in building water systems has continued to grow in significance as a public health concern. However, the ability to provide reliable, sensitive, and quantitative detection and differentiation of live and infectious pathogens remains a significant challenge. This webcast will focus on the current analytical and monitoring techniques for Legionella and explain considerations for method selection.
This is the first in a series of three webcasts that will to provide valuable practical information on Legionella technology and management in building water systems. In cooperation with NSF International, this series was derived from the conference Managing Legionella in Building Water Systems,held May 9-11, 2018 in Baltimore, Maryland. Topics for the second and third webcasts in the series are as follows; exact dates are to be determined:
Legionella Management Technologies for Prevention and Mitigation
Legionella Management and Guidelines
Presenters: Janet Stout, PhD, President and Director of Special Pathogens Laboratory and Research Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering Laura Boczek, Microbiologist, US EPA - ORD Joseph Cotruvo, PhD, Joseph Cotruvo & Associates, LLC
Moderator: Grace Jang, PhD, Research Manager, The Water Research Foundation
