Biofilms Biofilms are quite normal that we know as "slime", "growing crop" or "pad". We brush every day biofilm from the teeth. If we slip on rocks while swimming, then slippery biofilms are to blame, which...

Chlorine dioxide Chlorine dioxide as compared to chlorine and many other disinfection techniques, a large number of advantages: It has a higher oxidizing power than chlorine and can thus also to those substances, ...

General In other European countries are once again recently, cases of Legionnaires' disease, a serious infectious disease of the lungs, become known. The cause was a case of Legionella bacteria contaminate...

Legionella 1976 brought together members of the U.S. American Legion in a large hotel in Philadelphia. Of the over 4000 participants, approximately 220 people infected, of which 34 died from pneumonia at the ...

Legionella bacteria Legionella bacteria are rod-shaped bacteria with no special morphological characteristics. They form in the culture at Spezialnährboden white, relatively non-specific colonies that occur after a mi...