Legionnaire's disease: A nosocomial outbreak in Turkey

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 50-57

  Ozerol, I H ^a   Bayraktar, M ^a   Cizmeci, Z ^a   Durmaz, R ^a   Akbas, E ^b   Yildirim, Z ^a   Yologlu, S ^a  

^a INONU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b National Food Reference Laboratory   (Turkey)

Author keywords

ELISA; IFA; Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1; Nosocomial Legionnaire's disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; MALE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEROPREVALENCE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); WATER SAMPLING;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; FRESH WATER; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TURKEY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 30844441624     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2005.04.018     Document Type: Article

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