Legionnaires' disease in Europe: All quiet on the eastern front?

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1454-1458

  Beauté, Julien ^a   Robesyn, Emmanuel ^a   Jong, Birgitta De ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN;

BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; URINALYSIS; URINARY ANTIGEN TEST;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84890043688     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00089113     Document Type: Review

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