A survey of methods used to detect nosocomial legionellosis among participants in the national nosocomial infections surveillance system

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 412-416

  Fiore, Anthony E ^a,c   Butler, Jay C ^a,d   Emori, T Grace ^b   Gaynes, Robert P ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

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

^d NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED STATES; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ADULT; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS INFECTION; DECONTAMINATION; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 0033144669     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/501642     Document Type: Article

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