Probable Person-to-Person Transmission of Legionnaires’ Disease
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Probable Person-to-Person Transmission of Legionnaires' Disease.
To the Editor: Legionnaires’ disease is an often severe form of pneumonia that is typically acquired by susceptible persons (e.g., elderly persons and smokers) through inhalation of aerosols that contain legionella species.1-4 A cluster of cases of this disease occurred in Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal, in 2014.5 One of the first cases of disease in this cluster occurred in a 48-year-old man (P...
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عنوان ژورنال: New England Journal of Medicine
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0028-4793,1533-4406
DOI: 10.1056/nejmc1505356