CM HELMS, RM MASSANARI, R ZEITLER, … - Annals of internal …, 1983 - Am Coll Physicians Over a 10-month period, 24 cases of Legionnaires' disease pneumonia occurred among patients
admitted to an Iowa hospital, most of whom were immunosuppressed. Eleven patients died.
Twenty-one patients were admitted to a recently completed hospital addition, 16 of these ... Cited by 84 - Related articles - All 3 versions
M Best, VL Yu, J Stout, A Goetz, RR Muder, F Taylor - Lancet, 1983 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov An epidemiological link was found between contamination of a hospital water-supply by Legionella
pneumophila and by Pittsburgh pneumonia agent (PPA) and subsequent cases of nosocomial
legionnaires' disease and Pittsburgh pneumonia. The extent of L pneumophila isolation ... Cited by 162 - Related articles - All 4 versions
KN Shands, JL Ho, RD Meyer, GW Gorman, PH … - JAMA, 1985 - Am Med Assoc A three-year epidemic of legionnaires' disease in a hospital was dramatically curtailed following
hyperchlorination of the potable water supply. The hypothesis that potable water was the source
for the outbreak was further supported by isolation of Legionella pneumophila (the agent ... Cited by 82 - Related articles - All 4 versions
… , GW GORMAN, JP PHAIR, HM SOMMERS, … - Annals of Internal …, 1981 - Am Coll Physicians Legionella pneumophila serogroup 6 was isolated from nine of 16 shower heads in a Chicago
hospital ward where three patients had contracted Legionnaires' disease caused by serogroup
6 L. pneumophila. Each patient had showered there 2 to 10 days before the onset of ... Cited by 103 - Related articles - All 3 versions
SP Fisher-Hoch, CL Bartlett, JO Tobin, MB Gillett, AM … - Lancet, 1981 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Between December, 1979, and July, 1980, 12 cases of legionnaires' disease were recognised
in a district general hospital. 11 of the patients probably acquired their infection within the
hospital. Epidemiological and environmental studies indicated that the plumbing system ... Cited by 104 - Related articles - All 3 versions
J Stout, VL Yu, RM Vickers, J Zuravleff, M Best, A … - New England Journal of …, 1982 - csa.com Ubiquitousness of Legionella pneumophila in the Water Supply of a Hospital With Endemic
Legionnaires' Disease. J Stout, VL Yu, RM Vickers, J Zuravleff, M Best, A Brown, RB Yee, R
Wadowsky New England Journal of Medicine 306:88, 466-468, 1982. ... Cited by 134 - Related articles - All 3 versions
PM Arnow, T Chou, D Weil, EN Shapiro, C … - The Journal of Infectious …, 1982 - jstor.org Five cases of nosocomial Legionnaires' disease which occurred over a five-month period were
retrospectively investigated. Chart review showed that during the two- to 10-day incubation period
before the onset of illness, all of the patients inhaled aerosolized tap water from jet ... Cited by 140 - Related articles - All 2 versions
JO Tobin, J Beare, MS Dunnill, S Fisher-Hoch, M … - Lancet, 1980 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Legionnaires' disease was diagnosed in two patients in a transplant unit, both patients having
occupied the same postoperative cubicle shortly before onset of their illnesses. Legionella pneumophila
was found in water taken from the cubicle shower bath and from other showers in the unit. ... Cited by 155 - Related articles - All 3 versions
FS Nolte, CA Conlin, AJM Roisin, SR Redmond - The Journal of infectious …, 1984 - jstor.org Page 1. THE JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES * VOL. 149, NO. 2 * FEBRUARY 1984 @
1984 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. 0022-1899/84/4902-0017$01.00 Plasmids
as Epidemiological Markers in Nosocomial Legionnaires' Disease ... Cited by 44 - Related articles - All 4 versions
CE HALEY, ML COHEN, J HALTER, RD … - Annals of Internal …, 1979 - Am Coll Physicians Forty-nine cases of Legionnaires' disease were identified from May 1977 through July 1978 in
patients and employees at Wadsworth Medical Center. Cases clustered in October and November
1977. Fifteen patients died. All Legionnaires' disease (LD) patients were in the hospital ... Cited by 101 - Related articles - All 3 versions
