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LegionellaandLegionellosis
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Por:ClaressaE. Lucas, PhD
• Has served as the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (
CDC
)
Environmental
Legionella
Isolation Techniques Evaluation (ELITE) Program
Coordinator since 2008
•EarnedPhD inMicrobiologyandMolecularGenetics atEmoryUniversity,Atlanta,
GA in1996 andwas awardedoneof sixASM/NCIRDPostdoctoral Fellowships
• Author of numerous articles on environmental testing for legionellae, biofilm
Colonization and persistence, and environmental surveys for distribution of
legionellae
Por:NataliaKozak-Muiznieks, PhD
• Have served as the US Centers for Disease Control (
CDC
) and Prevention
Legionellosis LaboratoryOutbreak Response Coordinator since 2008, investigating
over 40outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease andPontiac fever
• Earned PhD inMicrobiology, Immunology andMolecular Genetics at University
of California, Los Angeles, CA in 2006 and was awarded one of six ASM/NCIRD
Postdoctoral Fellowships
• Author of numerous articles on sequence based typing, molecular epidemiology
andgenomics of
Legionella
