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A valuable experimental setup to model exposure to Legionella's aerosols generated by shower-like systems.

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This report is the first showing that an experimental model mimics so closely an exposure to Legionella aerosols produced by showers to assess human lung deposition and infection in well-controlled and safe conditions.
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This article is published in Water Research.The article was published on 2020-01-09 and is currently open access. It has received 10 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Bioaerosol & Indoor bioaerosol.

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New insights into the standard method of assessing bacterial filtration efficiency of medical face masks.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impact of substituting 100mm Petri dishes with 90mm disposable Petri-dishes, and showed that the use of a modernized colony counter should be clearly regulated and permitted to avoid the counting of positive holes.
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The Impact of Storms on Legionella pneumophila in Cooling Tower Water, Implications for Human Health

TL;DR: Analyzing 13 months of water chemistry and microbial data for the main factors influencing the L. pneumophila concentrations in five cooling towers for this year indicated chlorine and dissolved oxygen had a significant impact on cooling tower 785A/2A.
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Recent Advances on Bioaerosol Collection and Detection in Microfluidic Chips.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarized recent advances on bioaerosol collection and detection based on microfluidic chips and discussed the challenges and trends for bioaero-sols collection.
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Challenges and Perspectives for Biosensing of Bioaerosol Containing Pathogenic Microorganisms.

TL;DR: A review of recent advances in bioaerosol collection and detection can be found in this article, where the important challenges and perspectives for bio-aerosols biosensing were also discussed.
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Deposition and clearance of inhaled particles.

TL;DR: Theoretical models of respiratory tract deposition of inhaled particles are compared to experimental studies of deposition patterns in humans and animals, as determined principally by particle size, density, respiratory rate and flow parameters.
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Legionellae in engineered systems and use of quantitative microbial risk assessment to predict exposure.

TL;DR: Understanding the conditions favouring Legionella occurrence in engineered systems and their overall ecology will aid in developing new treatment technologies and/or systems that minimize or eliminate human exposure to potentially pathogenic legionellae.
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An in-premise model for Legionella exposure during showering events

TL;DR: An exposure model was constructed to predict the critical Legionella densities in an engineered water system that result in infection from inhalation of aerosols containing the pathogen while showering to help to identify critical conditions that might lead to infection derived from pathogens within the biofilms of any plumbing system.
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A quantitative microbial risk assessment model for Legionnaires' disease: animal model selection and dose-response modeling.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the Cavia porcellus dose-response data for modeling human risk of Legionnaires' disease (LD) in guinea pigs and compared the results with those of the human risk.
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