An outbreak of Legionnaires' disease associated with a display spa pool in retail premises, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom, July 2012

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 17, Issue 37, 2012, Pages

  Coetzee, N ^a   Duggal, H ^a   Hawker, J ^a   Ibbotson, S ^a   Harrison, T G ^a   Phin, N ^a   Laza Stanca, V ^b   Johnston, R ^a   Iqbal, Z ^c   Rehman, Y ^a   Knapper, E ^a   Robinson, S ^a   Aigbogun, N ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF NORTH MIDLANDS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; MALE; MOLECULAR TYPING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SEROCONVERSION; SPA TREATMENT; SWIMMING POOL; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84866706759     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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