Sampling Procedure and Potential Sampling Sites [for Legionella Environmental Assessment Form [LEAF] [2023-01]]

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) ; National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (U.S.)
• Description:
  Protocol for collecting environmental samples for Legionella culture during a cluster or outbreak investigation or when cases of disease may be associated with a facility.
  
  Sampling should only be performed after a thorough environmental assessment has been done and a sampling plan has been made. This protocol describes how to take standard biofilm swab, bulk water, and filter samples from commonly sampled sites.
  
  CS306411-A
  
  cdc-sampling-procedure.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Disease Notification Environmental Monitoring Legionellosis/epidemiology Legionnaires' Disease/epidemiology Public Health Surveillance Specimen Handling
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Pages in Document:
  6 numbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:dc0996b8e6f3889bee58b009b2682e3f1f6c126a0a348cc0e0ccf924755fa4c489fd1530fefed412cd99d6eb683ca20109d343125bb97403593b32412ae5cace
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/127493/cdc_127493_DS1.pdf
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