Hospital-wide eradication of a nosocomial legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 outbreak

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 273-279

  Bartley, Paul B ^a,b   Ben Zakour, Nouri L ^a   Stanton Cook, Mitchell ^a   Muguli, Raghuram ^c   Prado, Luis ^a,b   Garnys, Vyt ^c   Taylor, Katherine ^b   Barnett, Timothy C ^a   Pinna, Glen ^d   Robson, Jennifer ^e   Paterson, David L ^a,f   Walker, Mark J ^a   Schembri, Mark A ^a   Beatson, Scott A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Wesley Research Institute   (Australia)

^c CETEC   (Australia)

^d Biotech Laboratories Ltd   (Australia)

^e SULLIVAN NICOLAIDES PATHOLOGY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

bacterial genomics; genomic epidemiology; hospital disinfection; Legionnaires' disease; transmission pathway

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE; DETERGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CLEARANCE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CHLORINATION; CLONAL VARIATION; DISINFECTION; EPIDEMIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLEURA FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPUTUM CULTURE; WATER SUPPLY; AGED; AUSTRALIA; BRONCHUS; CASE REPORT; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS INFECTION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PLEURA; PROCEDURES; SEROTYPE; SPUTUM;

AGED; AUSTRALIA; BRONCHI; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISINFECTION; FEMALE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PLEURA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROGROUP; SPUTUM; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84962288854     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/civ870     Document Type: Article

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