Legionella pneumonia due to exposure to 24-hour bath water contaminated by Legionella pneumophila Serogroup-5

Internal Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 662-665

  Mineshita, Masamichi ^a,b   Nakamori, Yoshitaka ^a   Seida, Yasushi ^a   Hiwatashi, Setsuko ^a  

^a Mishuku Hospital   (Japan)

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

An outbreak of Legionella pneumonia; Nursing home; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis

Indexed keywords

CEFOTIAM; ERYTHROMYCIN; PANIPENEM PLUS BETAMIPRON;

AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BATH; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEATH; DISEASE DURATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPOSURE; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; LABORATORY TEST; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; NURSING HOME; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PLEURA EFFUSION; SENILE DEMENTIA; SPUTUM CULTURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION;

AGED; AGGLUTINATION TESTS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BATHS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; MALE; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SPUTUM; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 21644455134     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.44.662     Document Type: Article

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