A Legionnaires’ disease outbreak associated with cooling towers in Warstein, Germany, August 2013
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Epidemiological investigation and case-control study: a Legionnaires' disease outbreak associated with cooling towers in Warstein, Germany, August-September 2013.
Between 1 August and 6 September 2013, an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease (LD) with 159 suspected cases occurred in Warstein, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The outbreak consisted of 78 laboratory-confirmed cases of LD, including one fatality, with a case fatality rate of 1%. Legionella pneumophila, serogroup 1, subtype Knoxville, sequence type 345, was identified as the epidemic strain. A ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2047-2994
DOI: 10.1186/2047-2994-4-s1-p227