Hygiena 2018, 63(1):22-24 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1583

Risk of legionellosis from cooling towers

Radim Mudra, Irena Martinková, Marie Fiedorová, Danuše Hanslíková
Krajská hygienická stanice Moravskoslezského kraje se sídlem v Ostravě, Ostrava

Between 2015 and 2016, workers from the Regional Public Health Authority of the Moravian Silesian Region (RPHA) examined legionella disease in three people working in industrial premises, which came into contact with hot water aerosol from showers and the aerosol of technological water of cooling towers. The team of authors deals with the demonstration of the connection the of disease with the contaminated matrix - the aerosol of hot water from the showers and aerosol of technological water of the cooling towers, concluding that the investigated diseases were caused by the contaminated technological water of the open circuits of the cooling towers. Cases of the disease are supplement with an environmental survey of collected water, including the identification of the origin of the disease by means of biological molecular methods in the water of the cooling towers.

Keywords: legionellosis, occupational diseases

Published: April 30, 2018  Show citation

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Mudra R, Martinková I, Fiedorová M, Hanslíková D. Risk of legionellosis from cooling towers. Hygiena. 2018;63(1):22-24. doi: 10.21101/hygiena.a1583.
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