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Legionnaire's disease: a nosocomial outbreak in Turkey.
The Journal of hospital infection - 1 Jan 2006
Ozerol I H, Bayraktar M, Cizmeci Z, Durmaz R, Akbas E, Yildirim Z, Yologlu S
Abstract excerpt
Six nosocomial cases of Legionella pneumophila occurred over a two-week period, with one further case being diagnosed retrospectively after 30 days. Strains isolated from the hospital water system were clonally related to a single sputum isolate. A sero-epidemiological investigation into legionella exposure amongst staff and inpatients was undertaken at the eight-year-old Inonu University Medical Centre in...
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