Author:
Guerrero Isabel C.,Filippone Christine
Abstract
AbstractFour patients with atypical pneumonias admitted within a 1-week period to a community hospital were suspected and confirmed to have Legionnaires' disease. The patients had a common travel histor y. This cluster of cases uncovered a larger epidemic associated with cruise travel.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Microbiology (medical),Epidemiology
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