Transmission of Legionnaires’ Disease through Toilet Flushing

We describe 2 cases of healthcare-associated Legionnaires’ disease in patients in France hospitalized 5 months apart in the same room. Whole-genome sequencing analyses showed that clinical isolates from the patients and isolates from the room’s toilet clustered together. Toilet contamination by Legi...

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Pubblicato in:Emerg Infect Dis
Autori principali: Couturier, Jeanne, Ginevra, Christophe, Nesa, Didier, Adam, Marine, Gouot, Cyril, Descours, Ghislaine, Campèse, Christine, Battipaglia, Giorgia, Brissot, Eolia, Beraud, Laetitia, Ranc, Anne-Gaëlle, Jarraud, Sophie, Barbut, Frédéric
Natura: Artigo
Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2020
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Dispatch
Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7323554/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32568063
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2607.190941
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