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Managing Legionella Risk During the Winter Months

Contrary to what many individuals might believe, bacteria can thrive in both extreme hot and extreme cold. Though many strains such as Legionella—the prevalent bug behind a serious type of lung infect...

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Dec 2, 2022

How to Control Legionella in Your Building?

Modern facilities have brought us comfort and convenience that would have been unimaginable 100 years ago. However, sophisticated and urbanized facilities also brought new threats to our health and to...

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Jul 27, 2022

rqmicro’s Tips for Summer Holidays

Are you ready for summer holidays? So are Legionella. A recent study in the EuroSurveillance journal showed that Legionella were found in more than 65% of a total 465 tourist facilities, including hot...

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Jul 18, 2022

Legionnaire's disease outbreaks recurring in New York City

A very recent Legionnaires' outbreak in New York City was reported on the 25th of May 2022, causing 19 people sick including 1 dead. Even being thousands of miles away, public health officials in Chin...

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Jun 3, 2022

China CDC uses rqmicro.COUNT for precise management of Legionella risk

China CDC became user of rqmicro.COUNT in Asia Lately, in January 2022, researchers at China Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) measured Legionella bacteria in shower and spa water using ...

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Jan 31, 2022

Legionella gaining more attention in China

The Chinese Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development recently published a new regulation called the General Code for Water Supply, Drainage and Water Saving of Buildings (no. GB55020-2021), whi...

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Dec 3, 2021

Energy efficiency and ensuring high drinking water quality are merging today!

The goals of the energy transition cannot be achieved with the usual methods for hot water preparation and heating - new concepts are needed. On October 20 and 21, 2021 during the 2nd online symposium...

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Oct 15, 2021

Rapid Legionella pneumophila detection enables precision disinfection and follow-up by practitioners

Shock-chlorination or continuous disinfectant dosing often fails to keep L. pneumophila at bay in industrial water. Traditional cultivation-based methods can be biased and can take up to 10-14 days to...

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Sep 29, 2021

The new rqmicro.COUNT for microbiological water analysis at the IntEnv 2021 in China

At the exhibition IntEnv in Shanghai, China, we presented the rqmicro.COUNT, which has been developed for rapid microbiological control of water systems. Summer and hot temperatures are approaching mo...

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Jun 15, 2021

rqmicro.COUNT installed at Technical University of Munich for the LegioRapid project

The Legiorapid is a joint project between the Technical University (TU) of Dresden, TU of Munich, the Bavarian State Office for Health and Food Safety, and the Association of German Engineers (VDI) It...

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Jun 11, 2021

AOAC Certification Mark for the rqmicro L.p. SG1 DETECT Kit

The performance of the L.p. SG1 DETECT Kit from rqmicro AG was reviewed for various water matrixes under the AOAC INTERNATIONAL Research Institute (RI) Performance Tested Methods (PTM) Program and fou...

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Apr 30, 2021

rqmicro Method Validated and Recommended by China CDC

China CDC recommends rqmicro method as a reliable and easy to use method for the rapid detection of Legionella pneumophila China CDC recommends rqmicro method as a reliable and easy to use method for ...

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Nov 30, 2020

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