A cluster of cases of nosocomial legionnaires disease linked to a contaminated hospital decorative water fountain

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 764-768

  Palmore, Tara N ^a,b   Stock, Frida ^a   White, Margaret ^a   Bordner, MaryAnn ^a   Michelin, Angela ^a   Bennett, John E ^b   Murray, Patrick R ^a   Henderson, David K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONVALESCENCE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING; WATER SUPPLY;

ADULT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HOSPITAL UNITS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; MALE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 67651095913     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/598855     Document Type: Article

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