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Invitrogen Corporation (NASDAQ:IVGN), a provider of essential life science technologies for research, production and diagnostics, announced today the launch of its Dynabeads(R) MAX Legionella, which enables a unique process for targeting and concentrating legionella from environmental water samples. The Dynabeads(R) MAX Legionella provides a rapid and highly reliable sample preparation process, improving the method used, and result achieved, for the detection and quantification of legionella....
According to news.gov.hk: The Centre for Health Protection is investigating the year's 11th Legionnaires' disease case involving a 70-year-old man living in Wan Chai. He came down with fever and cough on August 5 and was admitted to Queen Mary Hospital on August 8. He is in stable condition. He had not travelled during the incubation period, andhis home contacts do not have any symptoms. Originally published by Info-Prod Strategic Business Information. (c) 2008 Info-Prod Research (Middle...
By Eric Eyre Staff writer The Kanawha-Charleston Health Department's investigation of three recent cases of Legionnaires' disease is drawing to a close. But the agency's response continues to spark criticism and has prompted the health board's outgoing president, Dr. Steven Artz, to accuse his successor, Brenda Isaac, of "fabricating events" and trying to "curry favor" with Kanawha County Commission President Kent Carper - an outspoken critic of the Legionnaires' inquiry. Isaac, who...
By Eric Eyre Staff writer Three Kanawha County residents have contracted Legionnaires' disease in recent weeks, the county's health director said Tuesday. A woman has died, and another woman and a man were in intensive care units in local hospitals, said Dr. Kerry Gateley, executive director of the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department. Tests confirmed that the patients contracted the Legionella bacteria that cause Legionnaires' disease, Gateley said. Health department officials have...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A protein called Birc1e, found within the cells of the body, plays a key role in detecting and controlling infection with Legionella pneumophila, the bacterium that causes Legionnaire's disease, according to a new report.Legionnaires' disease, a severe type of pneumonia, gets its name from a 1976 outbreak that occurred among people staying at a Philadelphia hotel that was hosting an American Legion convention. Later, the organism that caused the illness was named...
By Anne Harding NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The bacterium responsible for causing legionnaires disease can spread up to 6 kilometers from its source by airborne transmission, French researchers report. Legionella pneumophila likes to live in hot water, such as in industrial cooling towers or the water systems of large buildings where it can then cause pneumonia-like infections. Now it seems that a wider area may be at risk. Past studies found airborne legionella spread only a few...
By Megan RauscherNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - While Legionnaire's disease occurs with marked summertime seasonality, epidemiologists have discovered that it's wet, humid weather, rather than increased temperature, that best predicts the acute occurrence of the disease.A sharp increase Legionnaire's disease in the greater Philadelphia metropolitan area in recent years, which had been characterized by unusually heavy rainfall, led local epidemiologists to investigate the seasonality of...
By Deborah Mitchell WASHINGTON (Reuters Health) - Chlorine dioxide can be safely used to remove Legionella and other water-borne pathogens from a hospital's water supply, researchers reported recently at the 45th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. Before disinfection, L. pneumophila, the bacteria that cause Legionnaires' disease, was detected in 57 percent of water samples at their hospital. After disinfection with chlorine, levels dropped to 10 percent....
By Matthew Chung TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian health officials on Thursday identified the "mystery illness" that killed 16 people in a Toronto nursing home as legionnaires' disease. The disease, a type of pneumonia, is contracted by people breathing in small droplets of water contaminated with the bacteria -- often from ventilation systems. It is rare in Ontario, though the bacteria is common in the environment throughout North America. David McKeown, Toronto's medical officer of...
As a result of the joint working between teams of experts from the Iberia Ashland Chemical, S.A. company and the INASMET-Tecnalia Technological Centre, a solution has been found to prevent the serious disease caused by the bacteria known as "Legionella" and other similar disorders.This achievement has meant a great advance for human health. It is based on the biocidal and bacteriostatic effect of the SONOXIDE® system, used in refrigeration towers of factory buildings and installations that...
