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Restaurant outbreak of Legionnaires' disease associated with a decorative fountain: an environmental and case-control study by Rosalyn E O'Loughlin; Lon Kightlinger; Matthew C Werpy; Ellen Brown; Valerie Stevens; Clark Hepper; Tim Keane; Robert F Benson; Barry S Fields; Matthew R Moore is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Background From June to November 2005, 18 cases of community-acquired Legionnaires' disease (LD) were reported in Rapid City South Dakota. We conducted epidemiologic and environmental investigations to identify the source of the outbreak. ## Methods We conducted a case-control study that included the first 13 cases and 52 controls randomly selected from emergency department records and matched on underlying illness. We collected information about activities of case-patients and controls during the 14 days before symptom onset. Environmental samples (n = 291) were cultured for __Legionella__. Clinical and environmental isolates were compared using monoclonal antibody subtyping and sequence based typing (SBT). ## Results Case-patients were significantly more likely than controls to have passed through several city areas that contained or were adjacent to areas with cooling towers positive for __Legionella__. Six of 11 case-patients (matched odds ratio (mOR) 32.7, 95% CI 4.7-∞) reported eating in Restaurant A versus 0 controls. __Legionella pneumophila__ serogroup 1 was isolated from four clinical specimens: 3 were Benidorm type strains and 1 was a Denver type strain. __Legionella_
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- Author
- Rosalyn E O'Loughlin; Lon Kightlinger; Matthew C Werpy; Ellen Brown; Valerie Stevens; Clark Hepper; Tim Keane; Robert F Benson; Barry S Fields; Matthew R Moore
- Publisher
- BioMed Central; Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); London: BioMed Central, 2001-; Springer Science and Business Media LLC; Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc. (ISSN 1471-2334)
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)