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SUBMITTER: Den Boer JW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4480379 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Den Boer Jeroen W JW Euser Sjoerd M SM Brandsema Petra P Reijnen Linda L Bruin Jacob P JP
Emerging infectious diseases 20150701 7
In 2002, the National Legionella Outbreak Detection Program was implemented in the Netherlands to detect and eliminate potential sources of organisms that cause Legionnaires' disease (LD). During 2002-2012, a total of 1,991 patients with LD were reported, and 1,484 source investigations were performed. Of those sources investigated, 24.7% were positive for Legionella spp. For 266 patients with LD, 105 cluster locations were identified. A genotype match was made between a strain detected in 41 pa ...[more]