Synonyms for legionella
le·gionel·la

Princeton's WordNet

1. Legionella pneumophilia, legionellanoun

   the motile aerobic rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that thrives in central heating and air conditioning systems and can cause Legionnaires' disease

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1. Virginia Tech:

   What we discovered was that when the Flint River water went into the system it released a lot of iron, and removed the disinfectant from the water, and in combination, those two factors, the iron as a nutrient and the disinfectant disappearing, allowed legionella to thrive in buildings where it could not do so previously.

2. Virginia Tech:

   It's difficult to do that -- because you're trying to go back in time. whether anyone does that or not, remains to be seen, what our experiment is going to do is show why the Flint river water was growing more legionella. This is the only way you can do that testing becuase that water doesn't exist anymore, we had to recreate it.

3. Elyse Fritschel:

   Because Legionella is pretty ubiquitous in the environment, it's not a big stretch to imagine that it would be in the water system, and there were no other exposures that were identified.

4. Virginia Tech:

   What our experiment is going to do is show why the Flint river water was growing more legionella. This is the only way you can do that testing becuase that water doesn't exist anymore, we had to recreate it.