A community outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in South Wales, August–September 2010

M Keramarou; M R Evans; Collective for the South Wales Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak Control Team

doi:10.2807/ese.15.42.19691-en

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A community outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in South Wales, August–September 2010
M Keramarou^1,2 , M R Evans^2,3 , Collective for the South Wales Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak Control Team⁴
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Affiliations: ¹ European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden ² Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, Public Health Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom ³ Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom ⁴ The members of the team are listed at the end of the article

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M Keramarou
maria.keramarou wales.nhs.uk
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Citation style for this article: Keramarou M, Evans M R, for the South Wales Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak Control Team Collective. A community outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in South Wales, August–September 2010. Euro Surveill. 2010;15(42):pii=19691. https://doi.org/10.2807/ese.15.42.19691-en Received: 12 Oct 2010

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Abstract

During August and September 2010, an outbreak comprising 22 cases of Legionnaires' disease was identified by the public health service in Wales. The cases are distributed over a wide geographical area in South East Wales. There are two space-time clusters centred on the upper Rhymney Valley and the lower Cynon Valley respectively. Epidemiological investigations are compatible with cooling towers in each location as the potential source, but environmental inspections were satisfactory and microbiological investigations are inconclusive.