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Two Nursing Home Outbreaks of Respiratory Infection with Legionella sainthelensi

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To describe outbreaks of infection caused by Legionella sainthelensi occurring in older residents of two nursing homes and to determine risk factors for the development of infection. DESIGN: Descriptive epidemiology and a case-control study.

Authors

Loeb M; Simor AE; Mandell L; Krueger P; McArthur M; James M; Walter S; Richardson E; Lingley M; Stout J

Journal

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Vol. 47, No. 5, pp. 547–552

Publisher

Wiley

Publication Date

May 1999

DOI

10.1111/j.1532-5415.1999.tb02568.x

ISSN

0002-8614