A community outbreak of legionnaires' disease in South Wales, August-September 2010

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 15, Issue 42, 2010, Pages 1-4

  Keramarou, M ^a,b   Evans, M R ^b,c  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH WALES   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CLEARANCE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING TOWER; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; MALE; MORTALITY; PATHOGENESIS; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RISK FACTOR; UNITED KINGDOM; AIR CONDITIONING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR CONDITIONING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTORS; SEROTYPING; WALES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 78049494186     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/ese.15.42.19691-en     Document Type: Article

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