High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Copper-silver ionization is an industrial control and prevention process, approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, against infections of Legionella, the bacteria responsible for legionellosis (Legionnaires' disease). Copper-silver ionization is a dispersive process that introduces long-lived, stable, positively charged copper and silver ions into the water system. The ions bond electrostatically with negative sites on bacterial cell walls and denature proteins. Over the long term, ionization thus disperses and destroys biofilms and slimes that can harbor Legionella, the bacteria responsible for legionellosis (Legionnaires' disease). Complete control of a water system can take 30 to 45 days. Flow cells should be cleaned periodically to maintain the system; in a hospital, this task can be delegated to the facility's utility engineers.

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