Legionella
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CrabDan

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568 posts

172 months

Tuesday 17th July 2012
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What can people tell me about this?

Specifically, what I'd really like to know is can you smell Legionellia bacteria?

The_Doc

6,248 posts

249 months

Wednesday 18th July 2012
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CrabDan said:
What can people tell me about this?

Specifically, what I'd really like to know is can you smell Legionellia bacteria?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionella

You can't smell Legionella pneumphila AFAIK, but then I'm not a microbiologist.

The test for it is not.. " hmmmm, what's that smell? "

Indeed rotting, faecelent, malodourous water is overwhelmingly likely to be due to the enteric flora such as E.Coli, Salmonella enteritidis, pseudomonas spp etc