Legionnaires' disease outbreak in an automobile engine manufacturing plant

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 187, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1015-1018

  Fry, Alicia M ^a,b   Rutman, Miai ^a   Allan, Terry ^c   Scaife, Heidi ^c   Salehi, Ellen ^d   Benson, Robert ^a   Fields, Barry ^a   Nowicki, Scott ^d   Parrish, Mary Kay ^d   Carpenter, Joseph ^a   Brown, Ellen ^a   Lucas, Claressa ^a   Horgan, Timothy ^c   Koch, Elizabeth ^d   Besser, Richard E ^a,e  

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

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

^c Cuyahoga County Board of Health   (United States)

^d OHIO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^e MSC 23 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

AEROSOLS; AUTOMOBILES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; ODDS RATIO; OHIO; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0037443861     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/368171     Document Type: Article

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