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Community-acquired Legionnaires' disease at a medical center in northern Taiwan
Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection, 2019 Background/purpose: Legionella pneumophila had been recognized as an important pathogen for community-acquired pneumonia. We aimed to investigate clinical features and outcomes of patients with Legionnaires' disease at a tertiary medical center in ...
Wei-Fang Kao +3 more
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Legionella pneumonia in the Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada: a case series
Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2016 Background Legionella pneumophila, a major cause of Legionnaires’ disease, accounts for 2–15 % of all community-acquired pneumonia requiring hospitalization and up to 30 % of community-acquired pneumonia requiring intensive care unit admission.
Stephanie Cargnelli +2 more
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Legionnaires’ disease in the time of COVID-19
Pneumonia, 2021 Due to similarities in initial disease presentation, clinicians may be inclined to repeatedly test community-acquired pneumonia cases for COVID-19 before recognizing the need to test for Legionnaires’ disease.
Kelsie Cassell +2 more
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Role of Legionella pneumophila outer membrane vesicles in host-pathogen interaction
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 Legionella pneumophila is an opportunistic intracellular pathogen that inhabits artificial water systems and can be transmitted to human hosts by contaminated aerosols.
Ayesha Ayesha +2 more
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Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection, 2022 Purpose: To describe the investigation and intervention of a cluster of Legionnaires’ disease detected during the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
Jung-Jr Ye +5 more
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Strategies for controlling non-transmissible infection outbreaks using a large human movement data set [PDF]
, 2014 Prediction and control of the spread of infectious disease in human populations benefits greatly from our growing capacity to quantify human movement behavior.
House, Thomas A +27 more
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Epidemiology of Legionnaires’ Disease, Hong Kong, China, 2005−2015
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020 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.
Yiu-Hong Leung +4 more
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Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2022 Legionella pneumophila is the cause of Legionnaires’ disease, a life-threatening pneumonia that occurs after inhalation of aerosolized water containing the bacteria.
Allison E. James +15 more
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When Diarrhea Can Become Deadly: Legionnaires’ Disease Complicated by Bowel Obstruction
Case Reports in Gastroenterology, 2016 Legionnaires’ disease may present with a broad spectrum of illnesses and nonspecific extrapulmonary symptoms including diarrhea. To our knowledge, bowel obstruction has not been reported as a manifestation of Legionella.
Wesley Prichard, Laurel Fick
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Multistate analysis of prospective Legionnaires' disease cluster detection using SaTScan, 2011-2015.
PLoS ONE, 2019 Detection of clusters of Legionnaires' disease, a leading waterborne cause of pneumonia, is challenging. Clusters vary in size and scope, are associated with a diverse range of aerosol-producing devices, including exposures such as whirlpool spas and ...
Chris Edens +11 more
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