| contamination of potable roof-collected rainwater in auckland, new zealand. | one-hundred and twenty-five domestic roof-collected rainwater supplies in four rural auckland districts were investigated in a cross-sectional survey to determine water quality. samples of cold faucet water were analysed for physico-chemical and microbiological determinands, including metals (zinc, copper and lead), bacterial indicator organisms--heterotrophic plate count (hpc), total coilforms (tc), faecal coliforms (fc), enterococci (ent), bacterial pathogens including salmonella spp., legione ... | 2001 | 11317899 |
| a legionnaires' disease outbreak: a water blaster and roof-collected rainwater systems. | in february 2006, an outbreak of legionnaires' disease (ld) was identified in beachlands, a small, isolated east auckland suburb. it was investigated through case finding, a case-control study, sampling potential sources of infection and by molecular typing (using sequence-based typing (sbt) of all legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 (lp1) isolates). lp1 was isolated from the respiratory tract of one case, the roof-collected rainwater systems of five households (three associated with cases) and f ... | 2008 | 17991506 |