Well, I guess this is getting a bit of extra press because it occurred at the Playboy Mansion:Health probe at Playboy Mansion. But it is of relevance here since it relates to Legionnaires’ disease. Seems like there may have been a contaminated water supply.
There is a new paper in the New England Journal of Medicine that looks to be of relevance to those interested in built environment microbiology. Unfortunately the paper is not freely available and I do not have access to it right now. But there is a summary available (from the authors/journal):
Just a quick post on a workshop of possible interest: Building Design and Engineering Approaches to Airborne Infection Control. The workshop is August 1-12 in Boston, MA. It is organized by the Harvard School of Public Health. The overview from the website says: “A significant bottleneck in the implementation of precautions against airborne transmission of …
Note – after writing this post I found out this project is no longer active, though it still has some useful information. For those interested in what the US Government is doing in areas relating to microbiology, there is a useful site to check out called “The Microbe Project“. The goal of this project is …
Norman R. Pace, from UC Boulder, gave a talk at UC Davis yesterday about microbial diversity. In his talk he discussed some of his recent Sloan Foundation funded work on “microbiology of the built environment” including studies of shower heads, indoor swimming pools, water supplies, and hospitals. Pace is one of the pioneers of DNA …
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Just thought I would give people the heads up – I am helping plan a session on “Microbiology of the Indoor Environment” that will happen at the “Indoor Air 2011” meeting in Austin, TX June 5-10 2011. The conference itself covers an enormous amount of ground about, well, Indoor Air. And I am helping the …
Possibly of use: What You Need to Know About Infectious Disease (Note – this was imported from a beta version of the microBEnet blog that was on Blogger. This was published original on 1/23/2011)
Seems like a potentially useful workshop from EMSL
This workshop is worth a look: Airborne Infection Control – Design and Engineering Approaches (Note – this was imported from a beta version of the microBEnet blog that was on Blogger. This was published original on 11/16/2010)