Underreporting of legionnaires’ disease in France : the case for more active surveillance

A Infuso; B Hubert; J Etienne

doi:10.2807/esm.03.05.00096-en

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Underreporting of legionnaires’ disease in France : the case for more active surveillance
A Infuso^1,3 , B Hubert¹ , J Etienne²
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Affiliations: ¹ Réseau National de Santé Publique, Saint-Maurice, France ² Centre National de Référence des Legionella, Lyon, France ³ European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET)

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Citation style for this article: Infuso A, Hubert B, Etienne J. Underreporting of legionnaires’ disease in France : the case for more active surveillance. Euro Surveill. 1998;3(5):pii=96. https://doi.org/10.2807/esm.03.05.00096-en

Abstract

In France, surveillance of legionnaires’ disease started in 1987 with a mandatory clinician-based notification system. An average of 54 cases were reported yearly between 1988 and 1995 and six non-nosocomial clusters were identified. In 1995 the surveilla