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5th EWGLI Training course:
“Legionnaires’ disease: investigating outbreaks and incidents, risk assessment, sampling and control “
Colindale 13th to 16th October 2008.
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Target Audience
This very successful course is being repeated for a fifth year in succession. It is funded by the ECDC and is
open to EWGLI and EWGLINET participants and other scientific / technical / epidemiological staff who may
be involved in the environmental investigation of outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease. Prior experience is not
essential but a basic knowledge of microbiology, of the Legionella organism, diseases caused, and
diagnostic methods will be assumed. Participants will also be expected to have read the European
Guidelines for Control and Prevention of Travel Associated Legionnaires’ Disease
( http://www.ewgli.org/data/european_guidelines/european_guidelines_jan05.pdf ) and will also find it useful
to have read the SCA document on sampling for legionellae The determination of Legionella bacteria in
waters and other environmental samples (2005) - Part 1 - Rationale of surveying and sampling.
(http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/commondata/acrobat/book_200_1028650.pdf )
Objectives
A practical and workshop based course to enable participants: to recognise potential sources of
legionnaires’ disease; to be familiar with the factors that modulate the risk from potential sources; to
appreciate the methods commonly applied to control the risk; to have an understanding of the use, methods
and problems of sampling for Legionella species, the interpretation of typing and to understand how to
perform an assessment of the risk from legionnaires’ disease in a building or other facility.
Venue
Health Protection Agency, Centre for Infections, 61 Colindale Avenue, London NW9 5EQ, England
Date and Time
The course will start at 09:00 on Monday 13th – and finish at 12:30 on Thursday 16th October.
> Download complete program (43 Ko) 
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