Sporadic community-acquired Legionnaires' disease in France: A 2-year national matched case-control study

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 136, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1684-1690

  Che, D ^a   Campese, C ^a   Santa Olalla, P ^a,b   Jacquier, G ^a   Bitar, D ^a   Bernillon, P ^a   Desenclos, J C ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE VEILLE SANITAIRE   (France)

^b European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET)   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATALITY; FEMALE; FRANCE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERSONAL HYGIENE; SEROCONVERSION; SMOKING; SPUTUM CULTURE; TRAVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; TRAVEL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56349135913     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268807000283     Document Type: Article

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