Risk for travel-associated Legionnaires' disease, Europe, 2009

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1811-1816

  Beauté, Julien ^a   Zucs, Phillip ^a   de Jong, Birgitta ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EMPORIATRICS; EUROPE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; MALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK; TRAVEL; TRAVEL MEDICINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867878178     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1811.120496     Document Type: Article

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