Month: September 2022

DENTAL UNIT WATERLINES. "Researchers have know for many years that water delivered by dental units frequently contain high levels of bacteria. Despite the fact that contamination of dental treatment water often exceeds levels permissible in municipal water supplies or in recreational waters, there is no current evidence of widespread public health problems." http://www.osap.org/?page=Issues_DUWL_7 View in LinkedIn

PREVENTING DENTAL WATER LINE CONTAMINATION. "Although the water coming into dental waterlines is sanitized and meets public health safety standards ...(

PREVENTING DENTAL WATER LINE CONTAMINATION. "Although the water coming into dental waterlines is sanitized and meets public health safety standards ...(

HOSPITAL WATER PATHOGENS. "The majority of on-site disinfection systems to date have been installed in hospitals due to the high concentration of opportunistic pathogen susceptible occupants." http://lnkd.in/dAn_3i8 View in LinkedIn

HOSPITAL WATER TREATMENT MADE THINGS WORSE."Over the course of treatment the relative abundance of certain genera containing opportunistic pathogens and genera containing denitrifying bacteria increased. The results demonstrate the driving influence of supplemental disinfection on premise plumbing microbial ecology." http://lnkd.in/dAn_3i8 View in LinkedIn

RAPID PIPE COLONIZATION. "Once new pipes have been added to an existing system, microbial colonization begins rapidly, with microbial communities being established in as little as one year." http://lnkd.in/dAn_3i8 View in LinkedIn

PATHOGENS PROTECTED BY BIOFILMS. "The complex microbial ecology of premise plumbing systems can serve as a reservoir for opportunistic pathogens ... Biofilms and amoeba within the water system can protect opportunistic pathogens from disinfection, and may even allow their regrowth and increase in pathogenicity." http://lnkd.in/dAn_3i8 View in LinkedIn

ASPERGILLOSIS. "It is estimated that 10,190 aspergillosis-related hospitalizations occurred in the United States in 1996." http://lnkd.in/d6FTVi2 View in LinkedIn

UNEXPECTED HABITAT. "Nosocomial aspergillosis, a life-threatening infection in immunocompromised patients, is thought to be caused primarily by ?.. organisms in the air. Water from tanks yielded higher counts of colony-forming units than did municipal water. An isolate ... recovered from a patient ... was identical to an isolate ... in the patient's room." http://lnkd.in/d6FTVi2 View in LinkedIn

MOST BACTERIA IN WATER ARE HARMLESS, but are the basis for the food-chain for fungi and protozoa which may be less benign. Fungi and Protozoa can present health threats to humans. http://lnkd.in/dbbE87Y View in LinkedIn