Community-acquired Legionnaires' Disease in Nottingham – too many cases?

Legionnaires' disease: a review of 79 community acquired cases in Nottingham.

Seventy nine cases of sporadic, community acquired legionnaires' disease have been reviewed. Annual and seasonal variation in incidence was noted. The mean age of the patients was 53 years and 50 (63%) were male. Pre-existing chronic diseases were present in only 23 (29%), including two patients receiving immunosuppressive treatment. Common symptoms included unproductive cough, dyspnoea, chest ...

Community-acquired Legionnaires’ Disease in a Newly Constructed Apartment Building

OBJECTIVES Legionnaires' disease (LD) is a severe type of pneumonia caused by inhalation of aerosols contaminated with Legionella. On September 22, 2016, a single case of LD was reported from a newly built apartment building in Gyeonggi province. This article describes an epidemiologic investigation of LD and identification of the possible source of infection. METHODS To identify the source o...

Sporadic cases of community acquired legionnaires' disease: an ecological study to identify new sources of contamination.

STUDY OBJECTIVE To explore the relation between incidence of sporadic and community acquired legionnaires' disease and exposure to potentially contaminated industrial aerosols. DESIGN Geographical ecological approach using the postcode as the statistical unit. A multivariate Poisson regression model was used to model the relation between exposure to industrial aerosols and legionnaires' disea...

Potable water as a cause of sporadic cases of community-acquired legionnaires' disease.

BACKGROUND The environmental sources of sporadic, community-acquired legionnaires' disease are largely unknown, and culturing of water sources after identification of a case is currently not recommended. We conducted a prospective study of sporadic cases of community-acquired legionnaires' disease to determine whether the environmental reservoirs could be identified. METHODS We cultured sampl...

Community-acquired legionnaires disease: implications for underdiagnosis and laboratory testing.