PHOTO: SUPPLIEDCommunity awareness about legionnaire’s disease is growing, but some gardeners still underestimate the risks posed by potting mix, a researcher warns. The university’s Christchurch campus was one of the world’s leading centres for legionnaire’s disease research, he said. Two of his doctoral supervisors, Dr Amy Scott-Thomas and Prof Steve Chambers, were still working on the development of such a breath test, he said. Legionnaires’ disease was under-diagnosed in patients admitted to hospital as many could not to produce a sputum sample for microbiological testing. However, everyone could easily produce a breath test sample.

Source: Otago Daily Times January 18, 2021 21:33 UTC