Legionella monitoring in underground mining operations
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Feb 26, 2009 08:41 AM
For many years Legionella bacteria have posed a health risk. Their proliferation and dissemination from cooling tower water has been well documented and researched leading to the development of Australian standards and procedures to control the risks associated with Legionella growth [2,8,11,12].
By Julia Rawlinson*
This article describes the identification of possible risk areas in an underground mining operation and illustrates the results of field microbiological sampling.
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