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Healthcare-Associated Legionnaires’ Disease, Europe, 2008−2017
Healthcare-associated Legionnaires’ disease (HCA LD) can cause nosocomial outbreaks with high death rates. We compared community-acquired LD cases with HCA LD cases in Europe during 2008−2017 using data from The European Surveillance System.
J. Beauté +4 more
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European Surveillance of Legionnaires' Disease.
Legionnaires' disease and Pontiac fever are both diseases with important public health implications and require prompt and thorough responses to outbreaks for future prevention.
B. D. Jong, L. P. Hallström
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Legionnaires’ disease and gardening [PDF]
Legionella longbeachae was cultured from the sputum of a patient suffering from Legionnaires' disease. Source identification efforts included analysis of samples of potting soil from the patient's garden, and a genotypically indistinguishable strain of L. longbeachae was cultured from this material.
den Boer, JW +6 more
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From 2011 through 2018, there was a notable increase in sporadic Legionnaires' disease in the state of Minnesota. Sporadic cases are those not associated with a documented outbreak. Outbreak-related cases are typically associated with a common identified
J. Passer +5 more
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Legionnaires’ disease in Europe, 2011 to 2015
Under the coordination of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), the European Legionnaires’ disease Surveillance Network (ELDSNet) conducts surveillance of Legionnaires’ disease (LD) in Europe.
J. Beauté
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Fifty-eight people were sickened and 12 died from a Legionnaires’ disease (LD) outbreak in Quincy, IL, in 2015.
W. Rhoads +4 more
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Epidemiology of Legionnaires’ Disease, Hong Kong, China, 2005−2015
We reviewed findings of clinical, epidemiologic, and environmental investigations for 288 confirmed case-patients with Legionnaires’ disease reported in Hong Kong, China, during January 2005−December 2015.
Y. Leung +4 more
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Trends in Legionnaires’ Disease-Associated Hospitalizations, United States, 2006–2010
Background Legionella pneumophila is a waterborne cause of both healthcare-associated and community-acquired pneumonia. Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 is responsible for 80% of infections.
Gayathri Mudali +4 more
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Diagnostic testing for Legionnaires’ disease
Legionnaires’ disease is commonly diagnosed clinically using a urinary antigen test. The urinary antigen test is highly accurate for L. pneumophila serogroup 1, however other diagnostic tests should also be utilized in conjunction with the urinary ...
David Pierre +3 more
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Trauma and affect in a Holocaust survivor's story: Rosita Fanto's novel Rozalia Alone
Abstract My article endeavors to redress the neglect of Rosita Fanto's Rozalia Alone (2010), which deals with a page of history that is less known worldwide, the Holocaust in Romania. Using a trauma studies perspective that mixes with affect theory, the article demonstrates that Rozalia Alone covers in a nutshell the whole magnitude of the late 1930s ...
Arleen Ionescu
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