Legionnaires' Disease: The Wollongong Experience

Monochloramine and Legionnaires' disease

egionnaires’ disease was first recognized in 1976 during an outbreak among attendees at an American Legion convention. The disease is a form of pneumonia caused by bacteria of the genus Legionella. Legionella thrives at warm temperatures (25–42oC [77–108oF]). It lives inside biofilm in aquatic environments, usually as an intracellular parasite of amoebae.1 This lifestyle protects it from disinf...

What is Legionnaires' Disease?

The University of Wollongong

Searching multimedia databases using features extracted from the content is currently an active research area. This thesis presents novel feature extraction approaches for content-based image retrieval when the query image is a hand-drawn black and white sketch. To facilitate robust man-machine interfaces, we accept query images with no color and texture attributes. Special attention is given t...

The sophistry of the term "Legionnaires' Disease".

In January 1977, the C enter for Dis­ ease Control (CDC) of the federal gov­ ernm ent announced1,2 that its scientists had isolated a bacteria-like organism that a p p e a re d to cause th e o u tb reak o f Legionnaires’ D isease. The published scientific evidence that formed the basis of this announcem ent was limited. In ad­ dition, a preliminary report has recently been transm itted by CDC (...

European Guidelines for Control and Prevention of Travel Associated Legionnaires' Disease: the Italian experience.

In Italy, 35 clusters of travel associated Legionnaires' disease were identified from July 2002, when the European Guidelines for Control and Prevention of Travel Associated Legionnaires' Disease have been adopted by the EWGLINET network, to October 2003. Eight per cent (28.6%) would not have been identified without the network. The clusters detected were small, ranging from 2 cases to a maximu...