Clinical–Environmental Surveillance of Legionellosis: An Experience in Southern Italy

[1]  H. Humphreys,et al.  Surveillance of hospital water and primary prevention of nosocomial legionellosis: what is the evidence? , 2005, The Journal of hospital infection.

[2]  J. Dorca,et al.  Clinical outcomes for hospitalized patients with Legionella pneumonia in the antigenuria era: the influence of levofloxacin therapy. , 2005, Clinical Infectious Diseases.

[3]  C. Joseph.  Legionnaires' disease in Europe 2000–2002 , 2004, Epidemiology and Infection.

[4]  A. Siddiqui,et al.  Legionella micdadei infection presenting as severe secretory diarrhea and a solitary pulmonary mass. , 2004, Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

[5]  Patrizia Laurenti,et al.  Legionella Infection Risk from Domestic Hot Water , 2004, Emerging infectious diseases.

[6]  M. Massari,et al.  European Guidelines for Control and Prevention of Travel Associated Legionnaires' Disease: the Italian experience. , 2004, Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin.

[7]  P. Trerotoli,et al.  [The discharge form: advantages and limits legionellosis cases individuation]. , 2003, Annali di igiene : medicina preventiva e di comunita.

[8]  Jordi Carratalà,et al.  Clinical diagnosis of Legionella pneumonia revisited: evaluation of the Community-Based Pneumonia Incidence Study Group scoring system. , 2003, Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

[9]  M. Špaleková,et al.  [Relation between colonization of hospital water supply by Legionella and risk of infection in patients]. , 2003, Epidemiologie, mikrobiologie, imunologie : casopis Spolecnosti pro epidemiologii a mikrobiologii Ceske lekarske spolecnosti J.E. Purkyne.

[10]  V. Yu,et al.  Hospital-acquired Legionnaires' disease: new developments , 2003, Current opinion in infectious diseases.

[11]  M. Pedro-Botet,et al.  Legionella spp.: community acquired and nosocomial infections , 2003, Current opinion in infectious diseases.

[12]  H. Goossens,et al.  An outbreak of Legionnaire's disease among visitors to a fair in Belgium in 1999. , 2003, Public health.

[13]  K. Gray,et al.  Implementing a critical care course for ward nurses. , 2003, Nursing standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) : 1987).

[14]  J. Moran,et al.  An outbreak of Legionella longbeachae infection in an intensive care unit? , 2002, The Journal of hospital infection.

[15]  H. Leclerc,et al.  Microbial Agents Associated with Waterborne Diseases , 2002, Critical reviews in microbiology.

[16]  H. Goossens,et al.  An outbreak of legionnaire s disease among visitors to a fair in Belgium, 1999. , 2000, Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin.

[17]  J. Plouffe,et al.  Potential importance of Legionella species as etiologies in community acquired pneumonia (CAP). , 2000, Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease.

[18]  R. Venezia,et al.  Long-Term Control of Legionella Species in Potable Water After a Nosocomial Legionellosis Outbreak in an Intensive Care Unit , 2000, Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

[19]  J. Kool,et al.  Control of legionella in drinking-water systems , 2000, The Lancet.

[20]  Breiman Rf,et al.  Legionnaires' disease : Clinical, epidemiological, and public health perspectives , 1998 .

[21]  P. Visca,et al.  Molecular epidemiology of an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease associated with a cooling tower in Genova-Sestri Ponente, Italy , 1997, European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.

[22]  R. Margreiter,et al.  Legionella pneumonia in transplant recipients: a cluster of cases of eight years' duration. , 1994, The Journal of hospital infection.

[23]  H. Müller,et al.  Occurrence and parameters of frequency of Legionella in warm water systems of hospitals and hotels in Lower Saxony. , 1988, Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie, Mikrobiologie und Hygiene. Serie B, Umwelthygiene, Krankenhaushygiene, Arbeitshygiene, praventive Medizin.

[24]  L. Wheat,et al.  Onset and duration of urinary antigen excretion in Legionnaires disease , 1984, Journal of clinical microbiology.

[25]  A. Çotuk,et al.  Enumeration of Legionella pneumophila in cooling tower water systems , 2005, Environmental monitoring and assessment.

[26]  P. Borella,et al.  Water ecology of Legionella and protozoan: environmental and public health perspectives. , 2005, Biotechnology annual review.

[27]  E. Sondik,et al.  Legionnaires disease associated with potable water in a hotel--Ocean City, Maryland, October 2003-February 2004. , 2005, MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report.

[28]  M. Rota,et al.  LA LEGIONELLOSI IN ITALIA NEL 2004. RAPPORTO ANNUALE , 2005 .

[29]  M. Blackburn,et al.  Legionnaires disease associated with potable water in a hotel - Ocean City, Maryland, October 2003-February 2004. , 2005 .

[30]  C. Bridges,et al.  Guidelines for preventing health-care--associated pneumonia, 2003: recommendations of CDC and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. , 2004, MMWR. Recommendations and reports : Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Recommendations and reports.

[31]  K. Kawakami,et al.  Isolation of Legionella anisa from multiple sites of a hospital water system: the eradication of Legionella contamination , 2003, Journal of infection and chemotherapy : official journal of the Japan Society of Chemotherapy.

[32]  S. Stampi,et al.  Relationship between mineral content of domestic hot water and microbial contamination. , 2003, Journal of trace elements in medicine and biology : organ of the Society for Minerals and Trace Elements.

[33]  It Istituto Superiore di Sanit,et al.  Rapporto annuale sulla legionellosi in Italia nel 2002 , 2003 .

[34]  J. Schellekens,et al.  A large outbreak of Legionnaires' disease at a flower show, the Netherlands, 1999. , 2002, Emerging infectious diseases.

[35]  R. Wunderink,et al.  Legionella and community-acquired pneumonia: a review of current diagnostic tests from a clinician's viewpoint. , 2001, The American journal of medicine.

[36]  P. Visca,et al.  Legionnaires' disease on a cruise ship linked to the water supply system: clinical and public health implications. , 1999, Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

[37]  It Istituto Superiore di Sanit,et al.  La legionellosi in Italia nel 1998 , 1999 .

[38]  R. T. Porter.  Legionnaires' disease. , 1978, British medical journal.