Risk factors for sporadic community-acquired Legionnaires' disease. A 3-year national case-control study

Public Health

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 566-571

  Boer, J W Den ^a   Nijhof, J ^a   Friesema, I ^a,b  

^a Municipal Health Service Kennemerland   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Community acquired infections; Legionnaires' disease; Pneumonia; Risk

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

DISEASE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DRIVER; DRUG USE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TRAVEL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 33745051899     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2006.03.009     Document Type: Article

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