Environmental Surveillance of

Nosocomial structures pose a high risk of In the present work, we described the results of 7 years of environmental surveillance in a reference hospital in Liguria, in which a specific water safety plan (WSP) has been implemented in 2017, including data collected during the COVID-19 pandemic. During the study period, 1190 water samples were collected, of which 277 (23.3%) tested positive for Our findings prompted the reinforcement of control and prevention measures, affirming the appropriateness of risk-category classification. Indeed, the majority of contamination cases were associated with the water networks of buildings classified as "very high" risk.

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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.