Rainfall Is a Risk Factor for Sporadic Cases of Legionella pneumophila Pneumonia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Garcia Vidal, Carolina ^a,b   Labori, Maria ^a   Viasus, Diego ^a   Simonetti, Antonella ^a   Garcia Somoza, Dolors ^a   Dorca, Jordi ^a   Gudiol, Francesc ^a,b   Carratalà, Jordi ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^b REIPI ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLEURAL FLUID CULTURE; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEROCONVERSION; SPUTUM CULTURE; SUMMER; TRANSTHORACIC ASPIRATION; URINARY ANTIGEN TEST;

HUMANS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; RAIN; RISK FACTORS;

LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA;

EID: 84876175455     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061036     Document Type: Article

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