Giuseppe
Emeritus
A community outbreak of Legionnaires? disease in South Wales, August?September 2010 (Euro Surveill., abstract, edited)
[Source: EuroSurveillance.org, full text: <cite cite="http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19691">Eurosurveillance - View Article</cite>. Abstract, edited.]
Eurosurveillance, Volume 15, Issue 42, 21 October 2010
Rapid communications
A community outbreak of Legionnaires? disease in South Wales, August?September 2010
M Keramarou 1,2, M R Evans 2,3, for the South Wales Legionnaires? Disease Outbreak Control Team 4
1. European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden
2. Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, Public Health Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom
3. Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
4. The members of the team are listed at the end of the article
Citation style for this article: Keramarou M, Evans MR, for the South Wales Legionnaires? Disease Outbreak Control Team. A community outbreak of Legionnaires? disease in South Wales, August?September 2010. Euro Surveill. 2010;15(42)
ii=19691. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19691
Date of submission: 12 October 2010
During August and September 2010, an outbreak comprising 22 cases of Legionnaires? disease was identified by the public health service in Wales. The cases are distributed over a wide geographical area in South East Wales. There are two space-time clusters centred on the upper Rhymney Valley and the lower Cynon Valley respectively. Epidemiological investigations are compatible with cooling towers in each location as the potential source, but environmental inspections were satisfactory and microbiological investigations are inconclusive.
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[Source: EuroSurveillance.org, full text: <cite cite="http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19691">Eurosurveillance - View Article</cite>. Abstract, edited.]
Eurosurveillance, Volume 15, Issue 42, 21 October 2010
Rapid communications
A community outbreak of Legionnaires? disease in South Wales, August?September 2010
M Keramarou 1,2, M R Evans 2,3, for the South Wales Legionnaires? Disease Outbreak Control Team 4
1. European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden
2. Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, Public Health Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom
3. Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
4. The members of the team are listed at the end of the article
Citation style for this article: Keramarou M, Evans MR, for the South Wales Legionnaires? Disease Outbreak Control Team. A community outbreak of Legionnaires? disease in South Wales, August?September 2010. Euro Surveill. 2010;15(42)
ii=19691. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19691Date of submission: 12 October 2010
During August and September 2010, an outbreak comprising 22 cases of Legionnaires? disease was identified by the public health service in Wales. The cases are distributed over a wide geographical area in South East Wales. There are two space-time clusters centred on the upper Rhymney Valley and the lower Cynon Valley respectively. Epidemiological investigations are compatible with cooling towers in each location as the potential source, but environmental inspections were satisfactory and microbiological investigations are inconclusive.
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