A large community outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal, October to November 2014

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 19, Issue 50, 2014, Pages

  Shivaji, T ^a,b   Sousa Pinto, C ^a   San Bento, A ^a   Oliveira Serra, L A ^a   Valente, J ^a   Machado, J ^c   Marques, T ^a   Carvalho, L ^d   Nogueira, P J ^a   Nunes, B ^c   Vasconcelos, P ^a  

^a European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ^*  (Portugal)

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

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH DR RICARDO JORGE   (Portugal)

^d Center of Statistics Applications of Lisbon University CEAUL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COOLING TOWER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; PNEUMONIA; PORTUGAL; SEQUENCE BASED TYPING;

EID: 84922051571     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES2014.19.50.20991     Document Type: Article

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