Outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in a nursing home, Slovenia, August 2010: preliminary report

A Trop Skaza; L Beskovnik; A Storman; S Ursic; B Groboljsek; D Kese

doi:10.2807/ese.15.39.19672-en

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Outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in a nursing home, Slovenia, August 2010: preliminary report
A Trop Skaza¹ , L Beskovnik¹ , A Storman¹ , S Ursic¹ , B Groboljsek² , D Kese³
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Affiliations: ¹ Institute of Public Health of Celje, Slovenia ² Primary Health Care Centre Sevnica, Slovenia ³ Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

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Citation style for this article: Trop Skaza A, Beskovnik L, Storman A, Ursic S, Groboljsek B, Kese D. Outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in a nursing home, Slovenia, August 2010: preliminary report. Euro Surveill. 2010;15(39):pii=19672. https://doi.org/10.2807/ese.15.39.19672-en Received: 17 Sept 2010

Abstract

We report an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in a nursing home in Slovenia in August 2010 affecting 15 of 234 residents. To date, Legionnaires' disease has been confirmed in four patients. Further serum analyses and genotyping of isolates are ongoing. The building's water distribution system with dead end sections has been identified as the probable source of infection.