A cluster of legionnaires' disease and associated pontiac fever morbidity in office workers, Dublin, June-July 2008

Journal of Environmental and Public Health

Volumn 2010, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Ward, M ^a   Boland, M ^a   Nicolay, N ^b,c   Murphy, H ^a   McElhiney, J ^a   Collins, C ^d   Lynch, M ^d   McCarthy, M ^a   O'Donnell, J ^b  

^a HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE   (Ireland)

^b HEALTH PROTECTION SURVEILLANCE CENTRE   (Ireland)

^c European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET)   (Ireland)

^d MATER MISERICORDIAE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CHILL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFUSION; COOLING TOWER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; E-MAIL; EMERGENCY WARD; FEVER; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; IRELAND; KIDNEY FAILURE; LABORATORY TEST; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MORBIDITY; NIGHT SWEAT; OFFICE WORKER; PARESTHESIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; AIR CONDITIONING; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES;

AIR CONDITIONING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; IRELAND; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 77953841134     PISSN: 16879805     EISSN: 16879813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2010/463926     Document Type: Article

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