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Legionella Testing in the Hospitality Industry A Massive Problem, Nationwide First recognized in the 1976 outbreak in Philadelphia area hotels, Legionnaires’ disease afflicts 8 to 18 thousand people each year. This number may underestimate the true incidence since cases are likely underdiagnosed.  The bacterium Legionella pneumophila is responsible for the majority of cases of Legionnaires’ disease. It causes a severe […]

Testing Well Water for E. coli Annual Testing is Recommended You may think of well water as old-fashioned, however more than 13 million homes in the U.S. draw their water from private wells, and approximately 800,000 new wells are drilled annually. Pennsylvania ranks second, behind only Michigan, as having the largest number of households with private wells, almost a million. […]

July 14-17, 2019 ASHE (the American Society for Health Care Engineering) hosts an annual conference for health care facility managers, engineering professionals, and others with critical roles in optimizing the physical environment of health care facilities. This year, you can find U.S. Micro Solutions at Booth 2026. It is our first year attending this premier event for health care facility […]

Viable bioaerosol sampling is based upon the principle of sieve impaction in which air is aspirated through the perforated head of a volumetric air sampler. The air stream, which contains viable particles, is directed onto the surface of an agar plate. After sample collection, the agar plate is incubated and the resultant colonies are counted and expressed as colony forming […]