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A Cluster of Legionnaires' Disease in a Community Hospital—A Clue to a Larger Epidemic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Isabel C. Guerrero  and
Christine Filippone
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Abstract

Four patients with atypical pneumonias admitted within a 1-week period to a community hospital were suspected and confirmed to have Legionnaires' disease. The patients had a common travel histor y. This cluster of cases uncovered a larger epidemic associated with cruise travel.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , March 1996 , pp. 177 - 178
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1996

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