title: Legionella--fighting a resourceful foe.
abstract: In a presentation given at a recent IHEEM seminar, "Total water management within healthcare premises", held at London's Royal Society of Arts, David Harper, one of the UK's leading independent experts in Legionella, waterborne contamination prevention, and emergency response, described how the bacterium and its effects were first "discovered", offered valuable advice on how to minimise the risk of its growth and spread, and highlighted some of the alarming findings he had seen throughout a long career in the field, much of it spent providing guidance and advice to hospitals and other healthcare facilities both on Legionella, and a range of other water health and hygiene matters.
mesh_terms: D003428:Cross Infection / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006268:Health Facilities; D006801:Humans; D007875:Legionella / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D007876:Legionellosis / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006113:United Kingdom; D014871:Water Microbiology