Deutsche Version Deutsche Version
  MedUni Vienna    Intranet    MedUni Vienna - Shop    University Library    University Hospital Vienna  
 
cepii_hygiene_EN.png
 
 
 
Hauptnavigation
  • Home
  • General Information
  • Health-related issues
  • Teaching
  • Research
  • News data
 
hai /
 
Subnavigation

News

 

Poster Prize for René Platzer at the 12th YSA PhD-Symposium

At the 12th YSA PhD-Symposium of the Medical University of Vienna, held from 9 – 10 June 2016, René PLATZER was awarded a Poster Prize.more

 

Poster Awards for Azra Mustedanagic and Michiel Wijnveld at the 35th Annual Meeting of the ÖGHMP in Zell am See

At the Annual Conference of the Austrian Society for Hygiene, Microbiology and Preventive Medicine (ÖGHMP), held from May 30 to June 2, 2016 in Zell am See, Salzburg, Azra Mustedanagic, MSc. and Ing. Michiel Wijnveld won a Poster...more

 

EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020 supports project “FOLSMART” of Hannes Stockinger and Anna Repic

In January 2016, a new Horizon 2020 project entitled “Folate-Target Nanodevices To Activated Macrophages For Rheumatoid Arthritis – FOLSMART” starts at the Institute for Hygiene and Applied Immunology at the Center for...more

 

Poster Prize at the Annual Meeting of the Austrian Society of Tropical Medicine, Parasitology and Migration Medicine for Anna-Margarita SCHÖTTA

At the 49th Annual Meeting of the Austrian Society of Tropical Medicine, Parasitology and Migration Medicine (ÖGTPM), held from 12 – 14 November 2015 in Vienna, Anna-Margarita Schötta was awarded the Poster Prize 2015.more

 

Great success for the 7th EFIS-EJI South Eastern European Immunology School (SEEIS2015)

At this year's summer school, held from 16 – 19 October 2015 in Becici, Montenegro, participants from all over the world could benefit from lectures and workshops in basic and clinical immunology.more

 

Opening of the 14th International Conference on Lyme Borreliosis and other Tick-Borne Diseases

Congress president Gerold Stanek opened the Congress on September 27, 2015 in the presence of more than 400 participants from all continents, together with Allen C. Steere, who discovered in 1975 the Lyme disease.more

 

140 Years Hygiene Institute celebrated at the 6th Center's Retreat

At the beginning of the 6th Retreat of the Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, held on September 22, 2015, Rector Schütz was honored and the 140th anniversary of the Insitute for Hygiene and Applied...more

 

Poster prizes at the 6th Center's Retreat

At the 6th Retreat of the Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, held on September 22, 2015, 94 projects were presented as short presentations and posters. The best presentations were awarded, 5 awardees out of...more

 

Österreichischer Hygiene-Preis für Sílvia Cervero-Aragó

Im Rahmen des 23. Dosch-Symposiums für Krankenhaushygiene, das vom 15. bis 17. Juni 2015 in Velden am Wörthersee stattfand, wurde der österreichische Hygiene-Preis an unsere Mitarbeiterin Sílvia Cervero-Aragó verliehen.more

 

Award for Alexander ZWIRZITZ at the 11th YSA PhD-Symposium

At the 11th YSA PhD-Symposium of the Medical University of Vienna, held from 10 – 11 June 2015, Alexander ZWIRZITZ from the Molecular Immunology Unit received a Best Oral Presentation Award.more

 

Appointment of Johannes HUPPA as Associate Professor

Johannes Huppa, PhD, was appointed Associate Professor by the Rector in June 2015 because of his outstanding achievements in the Immune Cognition Group of the Molecular Immunology Unit.more

 

TU Wien und MedUni Wien forschen gemeinsam im Interuniversitären Kooperationszentrum „Water and Health“

Im Interuniversitären Kooperationszentrum (ICC) „Water and Health“ forschen TU Wien und MedUni Wien gemeinsam daran, die hohe Qualität des Wiener Trinkwassers für die Zukunft zu sichern.more

 

Karin Pfisterer is "Researcher of the Month" March 2015

Mag. Dr. Karin Pfisterer of the Molecular Immunology Unit of the Institute for Hygiene and Applied Immunology has been awarded the title "Researcher of the Month" March 2015 by the Medical University of Vienna.more

 

WWTF promotes a project of Johannes Huppa with 582.000 EUR

Johannes Huppa from the Institute of Hygiene and Applied Immunology receives a grant of 582.000 EUR from the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) for his project "High-Resolution Imaging to Unravel the Molecular Etiology of...more

 

Florian Forster was awarded the Thesis Prize of the Austrian Society of Allergology and Immunology

At the Annual Meeting of the Austrian Society of Allergology and Immunology (ÖGAI), held from November 6 – 8, 2014 in Salzburg, Florian Forster received this prestigious award.more

 

Habilitation colloquium of Miranda SUCHOMEL – congratulations !

On 15th October 2014 Miranda Suchomel from the Institute for Hygiene and Applied Immunology habilitated in the special field "Hygiene".more

 

Great success for the 6th EFIS-EJI South Eastern European Immunology School (SEEIS2014)

At this year's summer school, held from 26 – 29 September 2014 in Timisoara, participants from all over the world could benefit from lectures and workshops in basic and clinical immunology.more

 

Poster prizes at the 5th Center's retreat

At the 5th Retreat of the Center held on September 16, 2014, 78 projects were presented as short presentations and posters. The best presentations were awarded, 5 awardees out of 13 are from our Institute!more

 

Poster prize at the 11th EFIS-EJI Tatra Immunology Conference from 6 – 10 September 2014 for KARIN PFISTERER

At the 11th EFIS-EJI Tatra Immunology Conference from 6 – 10 September 2014 in Strbske Pleso, Slovakia, a jury of six top international researchers selected three posters out of 56 for the poster prize.more

 

Poster Prize for the Institute on the Conference of the Austrian Society for Hygiene, Microbiology and Preventive Medicine (ÖGHMP)

Anna-Margarita Schötta, Michael Reiter, Andreas Müller, Hannes Stockinger and Gerold Stanek.more

 
Displaying results 61 to 80 out of 103
<< First < Previous Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Next > Last >>
 
Inhaltsbereich

Sílvia Cervero-Aragó wins Forum Water Hygiene Award

The Forum Water Hygiene awards the Science Prize 2018/19 for our latest work on the relevance of VBNC (viable but nonculturable) Legionella, which was recently published in the number 1 journal in the water sector "Water Research".

The Water Hygiene Forum is a non-profit association founded in 2015 to promote and disseminate water hygiene technologies in buildings. Dr. Sílvia Cervero-Aragó was awarded the Science Prize 2018/2019 at the 2nd Forum Wasserhygiene Congress on October 23, 2019. She was awarded for our latest work on the relevance of VBNC (viable but nonculturable) Legionella*, recently published in the number 1 journal in the water sector "Water Research". The work was carried out under the direction of Prof. Alexander Kirschner, head of the research group Water Microbiology of our Institute and Prof. Julia Walochnik, head of research group Molecular Parasitology at the Institute of Specific Prophylaxis and Tropical Medicine, as part of an FWF project.

 

The proud winner with the two project leaders.

Legionella is the cause of Legionnaire's disease, one of the most common water-borne infectious diseases in industrialized countries. Legionella are usually quantified using cultivation methods in water samples, but many recent studies have shown that the number of living, non-culturable (VBNC) Legionella cells in water distribution systems can be many times higher than the number of cultivable Legionella cells.

In our study we were able to show for the first time that Legionella - when thermally treated with common temperatures (55°C, 60°C, 70°C) in water distribution systems in buildings - can to a considerable extent enter the VBNC state and maintain their viability over a longer period of time, and that these VBNC Legionella are able to infect amoebae and macrophages. However, this happens with significantly lower efficiency (longer infection time, higher infection dose) than with cultivable cells.

The findings of this study are highly relevant for the management of water distribution systems in buildings and for the assessment of the risk of VBNC Legionella for human health.

*Cervero-Arago S, Schrammel B, Dietersdorfer E, Sommer R, Lück C, Walochnik J, Kirschner AKT (2019) Viability and infectivity of viable but nonculturable Legionella pneumophila strains induced at high temperatures. Water Research 158 (2019) 268-279

07.11.2019

back to: Institute for Hygiene and Applied Immunology
 
 
Drucken
 

Quick Links

 
-- Head of Institute/ Secretarial office
-- Test results and sample retrieval
-- News Archive
-- Events
-- Intranet Login
-- Jobs
 
 

Featured

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
© MedUni Wien  | 
 Publishing information | Terms of use | Data Protection | Accessibility |Contact