Project description
Innovative online water-borne bacteria detection system
Legionella, a type of bacterium found in freshwater environments, becomes a serious health concern when it spreads in man-made water systems (e.g. sink faucets, shower heads, air cooling systems). The result is Legionnaires' disease, a serious type of pneumonia that the WHO estimates infects thousands of people, with mortality rates between 5 % and 30 %. At present, there is no vaccine available, and many countries lack appropriate water safety measures. The EU-funded LegioDetect project has developed a global, one-of-its-kind solution to detect and quantify legionella bacteria in water with great accuracy. This system is able to give predictions before critical values are reached, thus enabling counter measures, in addition to being easy to use in public and private settings.
Objective
WHO declared Legionella as the highest health burden of all water borne pathogens - even for our developed European countries. There are thousands of infections with mortality rates between 5%-30%. Due to similar symptoms like with pneumonia or with flu (fever, coughing and diarrhoea, shivers, headache and body aches) presumed numbers of unidentified and unregistered cases are estimated to be much higher.
There is no automated and scalable solution on market which allows the continuous monitoring of in-house water quality regarding detection and quantification of legionella. Current solutions are laboratory procedures, e.g. cell cultivation, which are time-consuming, costly and mostly error-prone, e.g. by detecting no viable-but-non-cultivatable infectious legionella cells.
To improve the health safety of all Europeans, including 20 million people currently under concrete health risks, we developed a worldwide unique solution for highly accurate and automated detection and quantification of legionella bacteria in water. Moreover, our system is able to give predictions and warnings already BEFORE critical value is reached, enabling counter measures. LegioDetect is easy to use also for non-experts, data is easy to understand and thus, the system is perfectly scalable for the fast growing market of Legionella monitoring. Our system is intended for owners/operators of rental houses, public buildings or buildings of special interest (e.g. hospitals, hotels, baths or swimming pools), for private households, but also for operators of cooling towers.
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H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
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H2020-EU.3. - PRIORITY 'Societal challenges
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SME-2 - SME instrument phase 2
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(opens in new window) H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020
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74254 Offenau
Germany
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