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Legionella and Legionellosis
chapter 20
By: Claressa E. Lucas, PhD
• Has served as the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (
CDC
)
Environmental
Legionella
Isolation Techniques Evaluation (ELITE) Program
Coordinator since 2008
• Earned PhD in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Emory University, Atlanta,
GA in 1996 and was awarded one of six ASM/NCIRD Postdoctoral Fellowships
• Author of numerous articles on environmental testing for legionellae, biofilm
Colonization and persistence, and environmental surveys for distribution of
legionellae
By: Natalia Kozak-Muiznieks, PhD
• Have served as the US Centers for Disease Control (
CDC
) and Prevention
Legionellosis Laboratory Outbreak Response Coordinator since 2008, investigating
over 40 outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease and Pontiac fever
• Earned PhD in Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular 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
and genomics of
Legionella
