Wellness centres: An important but overlooked source of legionnaires' disease. Eight years of source investigation in the Netherlands, 1 August 2002 to 1 August 2010

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1-6

  Euser, S M ^a   Bruin, J P ^a   van der Hoek, W ^b   Schop, W A ^c   den Boer, J W ^a  

^a Laboratory of Public Health Haarlem   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^c Public Health Service of the Rotterdam Region   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GENOTYPE; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; NETHERLANDS; WATER SAMPLING;

EID: 84857809838     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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