Healthcare-Associated Legionnaires’ Disease, Europe, 2008−2017

Healthcare-associated Legionnaires’ disease (HCA LD) can cause nosocomial outbreaks with high death rates. We compared community-acquired LD cases with HCA LD cases in Europe during 2008−2017 using data from The European Surveillance System. A total of 29 countries reported 40,411 community-acquired...

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Main Authors: Julien Beauté, Diamantis Plachouras, Sven Sandin, Johan Giesecke, Pär Sparén
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2020-10-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/10/18-1889_article