Colonization of a water system by Legionella organisms and nosocomial legionellosis: A 5-year report from a large Italian hospital [3]

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 532-535

  Ditommaso, Savina ^a   Biasin, C ^a   Giacomuzzi, M ^a   Zotti, C M ^a   Arione, R ^b   Guglielmi, E ^b   Barbaro, S ^b   Di Leo, A ^a   Serra, R ^b   Marchiaro, G ^b   Moiraghi, A Ruggenini ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b MOLINETTE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; ITALY; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; LETTER; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING; WATER SUPPLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS INFECTION; DISINFECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; ITALY; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONELLOSIS; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 33744823247     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/504454     Document Type: Letter

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