Rapid Identification of a Cooling Tower-Associated Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak Supported by Polymerase Chain Reaction Testing of Environmental Samples, New York City, 2014–2015

We investigated an outbreak of eight Legionnaires’ disease cases among persons living in an urban residential community of 60,000 people. Possible environmental sources included two active cooling towers (air-conditioning units for large buildings) <1 km from patient residences, a market misting...

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Pubblicato in:J Environ Health
Autori principali: Benowitz, Isaac, Fitzhenry, Robert, Boyd, Christopher, Dickinson, Michelle, Levy, Michael, Lin, Ying, Nazarian, Elizabeth, Ostrowsky, Belinda, Passaretti, Teresa, Rakeman, Jennifer, Saylors, Amy, Shamoonian, Elena, Smith, Terry-Ann, Balter, Sharon
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Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: 2018
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5956537/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29780175
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