Preliminary report: Outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in a hotel in Calp, Spain, update on 22 February 2012

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1-3

  Vanaclocha, H ^a   Guiral, S ^a   Morera, V ^b   Calatayud, M A ^c   Castellanos, M ^a   Moya, V ^a   Jerez, G ^a   Gonzalez F ^a  

^a Public Health Directorate   (Spain)

^b Public Health Center   (Spain)

^c Public Health Center   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; SPAIN; TOURISM; URINALYSIS; WATER SAMPLING; WATER TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84857887394     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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