Water Webinar | Shifting From Legionella Species to L. pneumophila Monitoring and Control, What Are the Benefits and Why Is It Important?
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7th Water Webinar
Shifting From Legionella Species to L. pneumophila Monitoring and Control, What Are the Benefits and Why Is It Important?
Legionnaires’ disease is mainly related to buildings and urbanization processes and can be effectively prevented by environmental monitoring and public health measures. The availability of tailored regulations, guidelines and their correct application represent key issues to control risks and protect populations. However, on a large public health scale, effectiveness requirements need to flank efficiency and appropriateness. Comparison of different strategies must include a cost/benefit analysis. In particular, different Legionella species are frequently detected in buildings’ water pipelines, but most of community cases (>95%) are due to Legionella pneumophila, the original cause of the Philadelphia outbreak in 1976. Speakers will introduce the epidemiological scenario and the available policies, with a special attention to the European framework and the application of the recent Directives on Water. A mathematical model will be introduced in order to contribute to compare different scenarios and preventive strategies or improve guidelines based on the local epidemiological scenario.
We look forward to share our considerations with colleagues from different disciplines interested in prevention of Legionnaires’ disease and within a public health perspective.
Date: 19 Septemner 2024
Time: 2:30 pm CEST | 8:30 am EDT | 8:30 pm CST Asia
Webinar ID: 891 5115 9609
Webinar Secretariat: journal.webinar@mdpi.com
Meet the Event Chair
Meet Our Speakers
Dr. Cristian Carboni
Innovative Disinfection systems of Industrie De Nora S.p.a.;
More than 20 years of experience in project management, research and technological innovation, author of numerous scientific publications. In Industrie De Nora he collaborates in the development of technologies relating to water and wastewater treatment in particular concerning disinfection.
Member of the scientific committee of Polo Agrifood, member of the Board of Directors of the International Ozone Association, Leader of the Water Europe Working Group Water and Public Health.
Since 2017 he has collaborated with the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) for the monitoring of the Actions under Horizon 2020; currently external expert of the European Innovation Council and Executive Agency for SMEs (EISMEA).
Prof. Paul van der Wielen
KWR Watercycle Research Institute, Nieuwegein, the Netherlands;
Paul van der Wielen is principal scientist Microbiology at KWR Water Research Institute, which is the research institute of the Dutch drinking water companies. Paul has 18 years of experience in all aspects of drinking water microbiology. One of the topics that he studies with his colleagues is the growth and control of opportunistic pathogens like Legionella pneumophila in drinking water systems, cooling towers and wastewater treatment plants. He works four days a week at KWR and one day a week at the Microbiology department of the Wageningen University.
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Legionella: A Key Organism in Water Management
Edited by Prof. Dr. Vincenzo Romano Spica