Giuseppe
Emeritus
Characteristics of reoffending accommodation sites in Europe with clusters of Legionnaires? disease, 2003?2007 (Euro Surveill., abstract, edited)
[Source: Eurosurveillance, full text: <cite cite="http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19680">Eurosurveillance - View Article</cite>. Abstract, edited.]
Eurosurveillance, Volume 15, Issue 40, 07 October 2010
Research articles
Characteristics of reoffending accommodation sites in Europe with clusters of Legionnaires? disease, 2003?2007
K D Ricketts 1, R Yadav 1, M. C. Rota 2, on behalf of the European Working Group for Legionella Infections 3
1. Respiratory Diseases Department, Health Protection Agency, Centre for Infections, London, United Kingdom
2. Centro Nazionale di Epidemiologia, Sorveglianza e Promozione della Salute, Istituto Superiore di Sanit? (National Centre for Epidemiology, Surveillance and Health Promotion, National Institute of Health), Rome, Italy
3. www.ewgli.org
Citation style for this article: Ricketts KD, Yadav R, Rota MC, on behalf of the European Working Group for Legionella Infections. Characteristics of reoffending accommodation sites in Europe with clusters of Legionnaires? disease, 2003?2007. Euro Surveill. 2010;15(40)
ii=19680. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19680
Date of submission: 07 June 2010
Between 2003 and 2007, 21% (n=100/477) of accommodation sites linked to clusters of two or more cases of Legionnaires? disease that were investigated by the European Surveillance Scheme for Travel-Associated Legionnaires? Disease (EWGLINET) went on to be associated with at least one further case, despite reporting that satisfactory control measures had been implemented at the time the cluster was first detected. This paper examines these sites (termed reoffenders) in order to determine whether they share any characteristics that may have contributed to the reoffence. All investigations conducted at cluster sites between 2003 and 2007 were included in the analysis, giving a total of 615 investigations conducted at 477 sites. Every country that investigated more than three cluster sites had to deal with at least one reoffence, and one site reoffended five times. The cases involved in the cluster that stayed elsewhere during their incubation periods could be used to help assess the probability of exposure, and therefore the risk, posed by particular cluster sites. A more extensive investigation and control regime may be needed in some instances to better control the risk of Legionnaires? disease at an accommodation site.
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[Source: Eurosurveillance, full text: <cite cite="http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19680">Eurosurveillance - View Article</cite>. Abstract, edited.]
Eurosurveillance, Volume 15, Issue 40, 07 October 2010
Research articles
Characteristics of reoffending accommodation sites in Europe with clusters of Legionnaires? disease, 2003?2007
K D Ricketts 1, R Yadav 1, M. C. Rota 2, on behalf of the European Working Group for Legionella Infections 3
1. Respiratory Diseases Department, Health Protection Agency, Centre for Infections, London, United Kingdom
2. Centro Nazionale di Epidemiologia, Sorveglianza e Promozione della Salute, Istituto Superiore di Sanit? (National Centre for Epidemiology, Surveillance and Health Promotion, National Institute of Health), Rome, Italy
3. www.ewgli.org
Citation style for this article: Ricketts KD, Yadav R, Rota MC, on behalf of the European Working Group for Legionella Infections. Characteristics of reoffending accommodation sites in Europe with clusters of Legionnaires? disease, 2003?2007. Euro Surveill. 2010;15(40)
ii=19680. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19680Date of submission: 07 June 2010
Between 2003 and 2007, 21% (n=100/477) of accommodation sites linked to clusters of two or more cases of Legionnaires? disease that were investigated by the European Surveillance Scheme for Travel-Associated Legionnaires? Disease (EWGLINET) went on to be associated with at least one further case, despite reporting that satisfactory control measures had been implemented at the time the cluster was first detected. This paper examines these sites (termed reoffenders) in order to determine whether they share any characteristics that may have contributed to the reoffence. All investigations conducted at cluster sites between 2003 and 2007 were included in the analysis, giving a total of 615 investigations conducted at 477 sites. Every country that investigated more than three cluster sites had to deal with at least one reoffence, and one site reoffended five times. The cases involved in the cluster that stayed elsewhere during their incubation periods could be used to help assess the probability of exposure, and therefore the risk, posed by particular cluster sites. A more extensive investigation and control regime may be needed in some instances to better control the risk of Legionnaires? disease at an accommodation site.
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