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legionellosis
Classification:
- Legionnaire's disease
- Pontiac fever
Etiology:
- Legionella
- risk factors
Epidemiology:
- increasing incidence
- 1.15 cases per 100,000 persons
- more common in blacks than whites
- more common in males than females
- more common with older age
- 92 cases of Legionella infection & one death from exposure at hotel aquatic facility in Tennessee 2017
Specific
Legionnaire's disease
Pontiac fever
General
bacterial infection
References
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Legionellosis --- United States, 2000--2009
MMWR. August 19, 2011 / 60(32);1083-1086
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6032a3.htm
- Yackley JK, Sweat D, Fill MA, Garman K, Dunn JR.
Notes from the Field: Legionellosis outbreak associated with
a hotel aquatics facility - Tennessee, 2017.
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2018 Jan 19; 67:77
PMID: 29346335 Free PMC Article
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/mm6702a5.htm