{"id":77135,"date":"2018-03-23T16:02:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T23:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/chip-detects-legionnaires-bacteria-in-minutes-not-days"},"modified":"2018-03-23T16:02:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T23:02:40","slug":"chip-detects-legionnaires-bacteria-in-minutes-not-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/chip-detects-legionnaires-bacteria-in-minutes-not-days","title":{"rendered":"Chip detects Legionnaires\u2019 bacteria in minutes, not days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chip-detects-legionnaires-bacteria-in-minutes-not-days.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the water in the rooftop cooling towers of a building\u2019s air conditioning system gets infected with Legionella bacteria, people <em class=\"\">in<\/em> the building can get potentially-fatal Legionnaires\u2019 disease. Therefore, it\u2019s important to check that water for the bacteria on a regular basis. A new chip is promised to do it faster than ever.<\/p>\n<p>The typical method of checking for Legionella involves putting a water sample in a Petri dish, then waiting 10 to 14 days to see if any bacterial cultures grow. Unfortunately, populations of Legionella can reach outbreak levels is as short a period as one week. Additionally, if an outbreak has already occurred, then its source needs to be ascertained as fast as possible.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why the new LegioTyper chip was created.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/legiotyper-legionnaires-chip\/53933\/\">https:\/\/newatlas.com\/legiotyper-legionnaires-chip\/53933\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the water in the rooftop cooling towers of a building\u2019s air conditioning system gets infected with Legionella bacteria, people in the building can get potentially-fatal Legionnaires\u2019 disease. Therefore, it\u2019s important to check that water for the bacteria on a regular basis. A new chip is promised to do it faster than ever. The typical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}