Going with the flow: Legionellosis risk in Toronto, Canada is strongly associated with local watershed hydrology

EcoHealth

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 482-490

  Ng, Victoria ^a,d   Tang, Patrick ^b   Jamieson, Frances ^b   Drews, Steven J ^b,e   Brown, Shirley ^b   Low, Donald E ^b,e   Johnson, Caroline C ^c   Fisman, David N ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c PHILADELPHIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Environmental health; Legionella; Legionnaire's disease; Regression analysis; Water supply

Indexed keywords

TRACE ELEMENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; COMMENSAL; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; HYDROLOGY; LAKE; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONELLA SAINTHELENSI; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT; WATERSHED; WEATHER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER SUPPLY; YOUNG ADULT;

LEGIONELLA;

EID: 67349271140     PISSN: 16129202     EISSN: 16129210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10393-009-0218-0     Document Type: Article

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