Community Outbreak of Legionnaires' Disease from Hospital Cooling Tower
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Proximity of the home to a cooling tower and risk of non-outbreak Legionnaires' disease.
OBJECTIVE To study the source of non-outbreak legionnaires' disease, particularly the role of cooling towers, by comparing the locations of patients' homes in relation to the location of cooling towers. DESIGN Retrospective, descriptive study of a case series of patients with legionnaires' disease ill between 1978 and 1986 and, for comparison, a case series of patients with lung cancer. A pro...
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عنوان ژورنال: Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0899-823X,1559-6834
DOI: 10.1017/s0195941700007888