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Rapid Identification of a Cooling Tower-Associated Legionnaires' Disease Outbreak Supported by Polymerase Chain Reaction Testing of Environmental Samples, New York City, 2014-2015
- Source :
- Journal of environmental health. 80(8)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- We investigated an outbreak of eight Legionnaires’ disease cases among persons living in an urban residential community of 60,000 people. Possible environmental sources included two active cooling towers (air-conditioning units for large buildings)
- Subjects :
- Article
respiratory tract diseases
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Details
- ISSN :
- 00220892
- Volume :
- 80
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of environmental health
- Accession number :
- edsair.pmid..........428c997a344a5eac8934041371bd001b