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Long-term impacts of Legionnaires’ disease on health and wellbeing: rationale, study design and baseline findings of a matched cohort study (LongLEGIO)

Swiss Medical Weekly
BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS: Is there a post-acute infection syndrome for Legionnaires’ disease? Legionnaires’ disease is a form of primarily community-acquired pneumonia caused by Legionella spp. bacteria.
Melina Bigler, Malina Vaucher, Manuel Wiederkehr, Sophia Brülisauer, Werner C. Albrich, Sarah Dräger, Valentin Gisler, Isabel Akers, Daniel Mäusezahl   +8 more
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Acute Pneumonia Caused by Clinically Isolated Legionella pneumophila Sg 1, ST 62: Host Responses and Pathologies in Mice

Microorganisms, 2022
Legionnaires’ disease is a severe form of lung infection caused by bacteria belonging to the genus Legionella. The disease severity depends on both host immunity and L. pneumophila virulence.
Jiří Trousil, Lucia Frgelecová, Pavla Kubíčková, Kristína Řeháková, Vladimír Drašar, Jana Matějková, Petr Štěpánek, Oto Pavliš   +7 more
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Clusters of Healthcare-Associated Legionnaires’ Disease in Two Hospitals of Central Greece

Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, 2018
Healthcare-associated Legionnaires’ disease often leads to fatal respiratory tract infection among hospitalized patients. In this report, three cases of Legionnaires’ disease among patients in two different hospitals (Hospital A and Hospital B) were ...
Maria A. Kyritsi, Varvara A. Mouchtouri, Anna Katsiafliaka, Foteini Kolokythopoulou, Elias Plakokefalos, Vasileios Nakoulas, George Rachiotis, Christos Hadjichristodoulou   +7 more
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Trauma and affect in a Holocaust survivor's story: Rosita Fanto's novel Rozalia Alone

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Legionnaires' Disease - Results of a Multicenter Canadian Study

Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2003
BACKGROUND: There has never been a cross-Canada surveillance project to determine the rate of Legionella species as a cause of community-acquired pneumonia requiring hospitalization and to determine whether there are any regional differences in the rates
Thomas J Marrie, Emidio de Carolis, Victor L Yu, Janet Stout, the Canadian Community-Acquired Pneumonia Investigators   +4 more
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Legionella spp. Colonization on Non-Passenger Ships Calling at Belgian Ports

Medical Sciences Forum, 2022
The association of cases of Legionnaires’ disease and ships has been well documented. Results from potable water samples collected for microbiological analysis during SSC inspections conducted from 2010 to 2018 at Belgian ports were analyzed in order to ...
Leonidas Kourentis, Lemonia Anagnostopoulos, Zafeiris Tsinaris, Achilleas P. Galanopoulos, Diederik Van Reusel, Raf Van den Bogaert, Björn Helewaut, Inge Steenhout, Hasse Helewaut, Dion Damman, Christos Hadjichristodoulou, Varvara A. Mouchtouri   +11 more
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Farming in the shadows of Rome: A multi‐proxy palaeoenvironmental record from Loch Clunie—Perthshire

Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 41, Issue 6, Page 915-932, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Roman impacts on local society is a subject of international significance. Loch Clunie, Perthshire, lies only 5.4 km from Inchtuthil, the only Roman legionary fortress in Scotland, and contains two crannogs and a probable lakeside hillfort. Despite this proximity and the likelihood of local–Roman interaction, these sites remain unexcavated ...
Samantha E. Jones, Maarten Blaauw, Fraser Hunter, Olalla López‐Costas, Antonio Martínez Cortizas, Tim M. Mighall, Gordon Noble   +6 more
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Development and Evaluation of Statewide Prospective Spatiotemporal Legionellosis Cluster Surveillance, New Jersey, USA

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2022
Incidence of Legionnaires’ disease is increasing, particularly in the Mid-Atlantic states in the United States; since 2015, New Jersey has documented ≈250–350 legionellosis cases per year. We used SaTScan software to develop a semiautomated surveillance
Jessie A. Gleason, Kathleen M. Ross
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The Microbiota of Evaporative Cooling Systems and the Impact of Rainwater as an Alternative Water Source

Water Environment Research, Volume 98, Issue 7, July 2026.
The substitution of tap water with rainwater for evaporate cooling systems creates no disadvantage with regard to the microbial safety and might allow a reduction of financial and resource investments. ABSTRACT Climate change and an increasing global population are supposed to cause progressive water shortages in the future.
Nicole van Leuven, Thomas J. Tewes, Ralf Lucassen, André Lipski, Rolf Rheinschmidt, Matthias Kleinke, Dirk P. Bockmühl   +6 more
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Windscreen wiper fluid without added screenwash in motor vehicles: a newly identified risk factor for Legionnaires' disease. [PDF]

, 2010
A source of infection is rarely identified for sporadic cases of Legionnaires' disease. We found that professional drivers are five times more commonly represented among community acquired sporadic cases in England and Wales than expected.
Isabel Oliver, Kafatos, George, Wallensten, Anders, Anders Wallensten, Katherine Ricketts, George Kafatos, Stuart, James M, Ricketts, Katherine, Carol Joseph, Stuart, James M., Oliver, Isabel, Joseph, Carol, James M. Stuart   +12 more
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