More than 10 years of unrecognized nosocomial transmission of legionnaires' disease among transplant patients

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 898-904

  Kool, Jacob L ^a,b,e   Fiore, Anthony E ^a,b   Kioski, Clare M ^c   Brown, Ellen W ^a   Benson, Robert F ^a   Pruckler, Janet M ^a   Glasby, Constance ^d   Butler, Jay C ^a   Cage, Gary D ^c   Carpenter, Joseph C ^a   Mandel, Richard M ^d   England, Bob ^c   Breiman, Robert F ^a  

^a NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Los Angeles Department of Health Services   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TRANSPLANTATION; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WATER SUPPLY;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; TRANSPLANTATION; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 0032239941     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/30142014     Document Type: Article

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