Assessing residential activity in a home plumbing system simulator: monitoring the occurrence and relationship of major opportunistic pathogens and phagocytic amoebas

Opportunistic premise plumbing pathogens (OPPPs) have been detected in buildings’ plumbing systems causing waterborne disease outbreaks in the United States. In this study, we monitored the occurrence of OPPPs along with free-living amoeba (FLA) and investigated the effects of residential activities...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Microbiology
Main Authors:	Vicente Gomez-Alvarez, Hodon Ryu, Min Tang, Morgan McNeely, Christy Muhlen, Megan Urbanic, Daniel Williams, Darren Lytle, Laura Boczek
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-10-01
Subjects:	Legionella pneumophila premise plumbing microbial communities opportunistic pathogens free-living amoeba
Online Access:	https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1260460/full