Case of legionnaires’ disease in a neonate following a home birth in a heated birthing pool, England, June 2014

Eurosurveillance

Volumn , Issue 29, 2014, Pages

  Phin, N ^a   Cresswell, T ^a   Parry Ford, F ^a   Cresswell, Tricia ^b   Phin, Nick ^b   Walker, Jimmy ^b   Aird, Heather ^b   Lloyd, Karen ^b   Fletcher, Georgina ^b   Halewood, Anne ^b   Stoker, Kelly ^b   Mason, Alison ^b   Harvey Vince, Lisa ^b   Harrison, Tim ^b   Chalker, Vicki ^b   Afshar, Baharak ^b   Collins, Samuel ^b  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; HEATED BIRTHING POOL; HOME DELIVERY; HUMAN; LABOR; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; LUNG LAVAGE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED KINGDOM; WATER AND WATER RELATED PHENOMENA; WATER BIRTH; WATER SAMPLING;

EID: 84904733857     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.es2014.19.29.20857     Document Type: Article

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