An Outbreak of Legionnaires' Disease Associated with a Contaminated Air-Conditioning Cooling Tower
- 14 February 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 302 (7) , 365-370
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198002143020703
Abstract
In August and September 1978, an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease occurred in Memphis, Tennessee. Of the 44 ill, 39 had been either patients, employees, visitors, or passers-by at one Memphis hospital (Hospital A) during the 10 days before. Assuming an incubation period of between two and 10 days, the onset of cases correlated precisely with the use of Hospital A's auxiliary air-conditioning cooling tower. L. pneumophila was recovered from two samples of water from the tower.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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