Summer increase of Legionnaires' disease 2010 in the Netherlands associated with weather conditions and implications for source finding

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 142, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2360-2371

  Brandsema, P S ^a   Euser, S M ^b   Karagiannis, I ^c   Den Boer, J W ^b   Van Der Hoek, W ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b Laboratory of Public Health Haarlem   (Netherlands)

^c ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate impact of; infectious disease control; infectious disease epidemiology; Legionella; Legionnaires' disease

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PRECIPITATION; SAMPLING; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUMMER; WEATHER; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLIMATE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEASON; SEX RATIO; TEMPERATURE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLIMATE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NETHERLANDS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84910011557     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268813003476     Document Type: Article

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