Natalie G Exum, Lindsay N Avolio, Gregory Bova, Clare Rock, Melanie S Curless, Lisa L Maragakis, Kellogg J Schwab
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A hospital water system colonized with Legionella bacteria (three of four buildings, with > 50% of positive samples) was able to reduce detections to <1% positivity in the long term only after ClO2 was iteratively added first to the cold-water and then hot-water systems followed by pipe replacements (n = 6835 total samples).
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