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Adherence to Legionella control regulations and guidelines in Norwegian nursing homes: a cross-sectional survey

Infection by Legionella bacteria is a risk to elderly individuals in health care facilities and should be managed by preventing bacterial proliferation in internal water systems. Norwegian legislation calls for a...

Anders Bekkelund, Line Ødegård Angeloff, Ettore Amato… in BMC Public Health (2024)

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Evaluation of the pilot wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in Norway, June 2022 – March 2023

During the COVID-19 pandemic, wastewater-based surveillance gained great international interest as an additional tool to monitor SARS-CoV-2. In autumn 2021, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health decided to ...

Ettore Amato, Susanne Hyllestad, Petter Heradstveit, Petter Langlete… in BMC Public Health (2023)

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Correction to: The effectiveness of syndromic surveillance for the early detection of waterborne outbreaks: a systematic review

Susanne Hyllestad, Ettore Amato, Karin Nygård, Line Vold… in BMC Infectious Diseases (2022)

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The effectiveness of syndromic surveillance for the early detection of waterborne outbreaks: a systematic review

Waterborne outbreaks are still a risk in high-income countries, and their early detection is crucial to limit their societal consequences. Although syndromic surveillance is widely used for the purpose of dete...

Susanne Hyllestad, Ettore Amato, Karin Nygård, Line Vold… in BMC Infectious Diseases (2021)

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Compliance with water advisories after water outages in Norway

Water advisories, especially those concerning boiling drinking water, are widely used to reduce risks of infection from contaminants in the water supply. Since the effectiveness of boil water advisories (BWAs)...

Susanne Hyllestad, Lamprini Veneti, Annechen Bahr Bugge… in BMC Public Health (2019)