Does using potting mix make you sick? Results from a Legionella longbeachae case-control study in South Australia

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 34-39

  O'Connor, B A ^a,b   Carman, J ^c   Eckert, K ^d   Tucker, G ^a   Givney, Rod ^a   Cameron, S ^b,c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES   (Australia)

^b The Australian National University   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AWARENESS; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INTERVIEW; LEGIONELLA LONGBEACHAE; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MATERIALS HANDLING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SEROLOGY; SMOKING HABIT; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GARDENING; HUMANS; LEGIONELLA LONGBEACHAE; LEGIONELLOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33751368178     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S095026880600656X     Document Type: Article

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