title: Awareness needed of Legionella risk.
abstract: A profile of the work of David Harper, global authority on Legionnaire's disease in engineering terms, whose investigations into new-build hospital water systems have uncovered a number of risk factors which could expose patients to the Legionella bacterium.
mesh_terms: D003428:Cross Infection / Q000517:prevention & control; D004780:Environment, Controlled; D005060:Europe; D019983:Guideline Adherence; D006749:Hospital Design and Construction / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000592:standards*; D007877:Legionnaires' Disease / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008284:Maintenance and Engineering, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D012498:Sanitary Engineering / Q000592:standards*; D014871:Water Microbiology