Neonatal Sudden Death Due to Legionella Pneumonia Associated with Water Birth in a Domestic Spa Bath-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Neonatal Sudden Death Due to Legionella Pneumonia Associated with Water Birth in a Domestic Spa Bath

Published:2003-05 Issue:5 Volume:41 Page:2227-2229
ISSN:0095-1137
Container-title:Journal of Clinical Microbiology
language:en
Short-container-title:J Clin Microbiol

Author:

Nagai Takuhito¹,Sobajima Hisanori¹,Iwasa Mitsuji¹,Tsuzuki Toyonori²,Kura Fumiaki³,Amemura-Maekawa Junko³,Watanabe Haruo³

Affiliation:

1. Department of Pediatrics

2. Department of Pathology, Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital, Nagoya 466-8650

3. Department of Bacteriology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo 162-8640, Japan

Abstract

ABSTRACT We report the first case of neonatal Legionnaires' disease associated with water birth in a spa bath at home. Legionella pneumophila serogroup 6 was detected from postmortem lung tissue.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Microbiology (medical)

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/JCM.41.5.2227-2229.2003

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