European network cooperation to identify hotel as source for pneumonia caused by Legionella pneumophila serogroup 2

PC Lück; F Hahn; M Senger; SA Boers; P Brandsema

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European network cooperation to identify hotel as source for pneumonia caused by Legionella pneumophila serogroup 2
PC Lück¹ , F Hahn² , M Senger³ , SA Boers⁴ , P Brandsema⁵
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Affiliations: ¹ German Reference Laboratory for Legionella, Dresden, Germany ² Municipal Health Service Viersen, Germany ³ Corporation for Hygiene Consulting and Analytics (Gesellschaft für Hygieneberatung und -analytik, HyGes), Mönchengladbach, Germany ⁴ Regional Public Health Laboratory Kennemerland, Haarlem, the Netherlands ⁵ Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, RIVM) Bilthoven, the Netherlands

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Citation style for this article: Lück PC, Hahn F, Senger M, Boers SA, Brandsema P. European network cooperation to identify hotel as source for pneumonia caused by Legionella pneumophila serogroup 2. Euro Surveill. 2008;13(24):pii=18903. https://doi.org/10.2807/ese.13.24.18903-en Received: 03 Jun 2008

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Here we describe a case of hotel-associated legionellosis in an immuno-competent man caused byLegionella pneumophila serogroup 2, sequence type (ST) 39 that was identified through European cooperation.

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