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Legionellosis outbreak associated with asphalt paving machine, Spain, 2009.
Emerging infectious diseases - 1 Sept 2010
Coscollá Mireia, Fenollar José, Escribano Isabel, González-Candelas Fernando
Abstract excerpt
From 1999 through 2005 in Alcoi, Spain, incidence of legionellosis was continually high. Over the next 4 years, incidence was lower, but an increase in July 2009 led health authorities to declare an epidemic outbreak. A molecular epidemiology investigation showed that the allelic profiles for all Legionella pneumophila samples from the 2009 outbreak patients were the same, thus pointing to a common genetic origin...
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