Assessing residential activity in a home plumbing system simulator: monitoring the occurrence and relationship of major opportunistic pathogens and phagocytic amoebas

Assessing residential activity in a home plumbing system simulator: monitoring the occurrence and relationship of major opportunistic pathogens and phagocytic amoebas

Opportunistic premise plumbing pathogens (OPPPs) have been detected in buildings’ plumbing systems causing waterborne disease outbreaks in the United States. In this study, we monitored the occurrence of OPPPs along with free-living amoeba (FLA) and investigated the effects of residential activities...

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Main Authors: Vicente Gomez-Alvarez, Hodon Ryu, Min Tang, Morgan McNeely, Christy Muhlen, Megan Urbanic, Daniel Williams, Darren Lytle, Laura Boczek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
Legionella pneumophila
premise plumbing
microbial communities
opportunistic pathogens
free-living amoeba
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1260460/full

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