Legionnaires' disease and gardening

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 88-91

  Den Boer, J W ^a,b   Yzerman, E P F ^b   Jansen, R ^b   Bruin, J P ^b   Verhoef, L P B ^d   Neve, G ^c   Van Der Zwaluw, K ^d  

^a Municipal Health Service Kennemerland   (Netherlands)

^b Laboratory of Public Health Haarlem   (Netherlands)

^c Municipal Health Service Zaanstreek Waterland   (Netherlands)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Environmental exposure; Legionella longbeachae; Legionnaires' disease; Pneumonia; Public health; Soil

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHROMOSOME BANDING PATTERN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME ELECTROPHORESIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LEGIONELLA LONGBEACHAE; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; LEISURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLA LONGBEACHAE;

EID: 33845290631     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2006.01562.x     Document Type: Article

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