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Prevalence, pattern and risk factors for work-related musculoskeletal disorders among Nigerian plumbers. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2022
Plumbing work is more manually driven in low-and-middle income countries (LMICs), and the prevalence of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) among workers who engage in plumbing in LMICs may be worse than earlier reports from developed ...
Chidozie Emmanuel Mbada, Aanuoluwa Feyisike Abegunrin, Michael Ogbonnia Egwu, Clara Toyin Fatoye, Haruna Moda, Olatomiwa Falade, Francis Fatoye   +6 more
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Avaliação das condições de operação de equipamentos hidrossanitários em edificações públicas [PDF]

Ambiente Construído, 2021
Resumo A água para consumo humano, quando presente nos sistemas prediais, é passível de diversas formas de desperdício. Por vezes, os gastos excessivos se devem ao término da vida útil dos equipamentos hidrossanitários e à negligência quanto à ...
Andreza Kalbusch, Felipe Gonçalves, Roberta Jacoby Cureau, Daiele Defaveri, Doalcey Antunes Ramos   +4 more
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Sphingomonas Infections Arising from Hospital Plumbing Fixtures [PDF]

Open Forum Infect Dis, 2017
BACKGROUND: Following a rise in nosocomial infections due to Sphingomonas, a waterborne Gram-negative organism, we undertook an epidemiological investigation to identify possible sources and develop a remediation strategy. METHODS: We analyzed Sphingomonas isolates from 30 inpatients in the past 11 years, and we reviewed each patient’s chart.
Zellmer C, Michelin A, Johnson R, Dekker J, Frank K, Henderson D, Lau A, Segre J, Palmore T.   +8 more
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Four buildings and a flush: Lessons from degraded water quality and recommendations on building water management [PDF]

Environmental Science and Ecotechnology
A reduction in building occupancy can lead to stagnant water in plumbing, and the potential consequences for water quality have gained increasing attention.
Kyungyeon Ra, Caitlin Proctor, Christian Ley, Danielle Angert, Yoorae Noh, Tolulope Odimayomi, Andrew J. Whelton   +6 more
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Noninvasive Acoustic Recognition of Water Flow Sources for Human Activity Monitoring in Smart Homes [PDF]

Sensors
This paper presents a noninvasive system for identifying water flow sources with the final goal of supporting human activity recognition (HAR) in activities of daily living (ADL).
Sara Comai, Michele Cortinovis, Riccardo Girelli, Fabio Salice   +3 more
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Efficacy of physical and chemical disinfection against clinically relevant free-living amoebae isolated from drinking water and plumbing biofilms [PDF]

Frontiers in Microbiology
IntroductionFree-living amoebae (FLA) are commonly found in drinking water systems and biofilms, posing public health risks both as pathogens and as hosts for opportunistic bacteria such as Legionella spp. and Mycobacterium spp.
Muhammad Atif Nisar, Claire Hayward, Claire Hayward, Kirstin E. Ross, Melissa H. Brown, Melissa H. Brown, Richard Bentham, Harriet Whiley, Harriet Whiley   +8 more
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A methodology to simulate peak water demand for water supply systems using semi-direct methods: A case study for a residential building in Mexico [PDF]

Heliyon
Historically, approaches for determining peak water demand in buildings have been based on probabilistic methods. Extensive research has shown that these methods lack accuracy because of the human factor in the probability of use.
Pedro Cortez-Lara, Eva Selene Hernández Gress, Romeo Ballinas-Gonzalez, Benjamin Sanchez   +3 more
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Impact of material properties for improved Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm inactivation with 280 nm UV LEDs [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Biofilm microbial communities encased in extracellular polymeric substances are a concern in drinking water premise plumbing and fixtures, and are challenging to remove and disinfect. Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P.
Toni J. Mullin, Sean A. MacIsaac, Amina K. Stoddart, Graham A. Gagnon   +3 more
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New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-1 -producing Klebsiella oxytoca sequence type 2 from toilets as the likely source of nosocomial transmission to patients – a root cause analysis [PDF]

Infection Prevention in Practice
Summary: Background: The hospital environment is a known reservoir for nosocomial infections, with bathroom plumbing increasingly implicated in the spread of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (CPE).
H.D. Eriksen, L.J. Porsbo, B. Bang, N. Ank, H. Hasman   +4 more
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The effects of silver nitrate on Mycobacterium abscessus biofilms in a simulated antimicrobial showerhead environment [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health
Antimicrobial silver materials for drinking water disinfection have become increasingly popular in building-wide systems (e.g., copper-silver ionization) and point-of-use applications (e.g., silver containing plumbing fixtures) to combat the microbial ...
Sarah Pitell, Cheolwoon Woo, Jill Millstone, Jill Millstone, Jill Millstone, Janet Stout, Janet Stout, Leanne Gilbertson, Sarah-Jane Haig, Sarah-Jane Haig   +9 more
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