Severe pneumonia due to <i>Legionella</i> and SARS-CoV-2 co-infection necessitating medical evacuation from a cargo ship-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Severe pneumonia due to Legionella and SARS-CoV-2 co-infection necessitating medical evacuation from a cargo ship

Published:2023-05-09 Issue:5 Volume:30 Page:
ISSN:1195-1982
Container-title:Journal of Travel Medicine
language:en
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Author:

Kitaya Shiori¹²³⁴,Baba Hiroaki¹²⁵,Okamoto Michiko⁶,Sakamoto Masahiro⁶,Nakayama Asami⁷,Takei Yumiko¹²,Seike Issei¹²,Takei Kentarou¹²⁵,Oshima Kengo¹²⁵,Tokuda Koichi¹²⁵,Shiga Takuya⁸,Kanamori Hajime¹²⁵

Affiliation:

1. Department of Infectious Diseases , Internal Medicine, , Sendai, Miyagi 980-8574 , Japan

2. Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine , Internal Medicine, , Sendai, Miyagi 980-8574 , Japan

3. Department of Otolaryngology , Head and Neck Surgery, , Sendai, Miyagi 980-8574 , Japan

4. Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine , Head and Neck Surgery, , Sendai, Miyagi 980-8574 , Japan

5. Department of Intelligent Network for Infection Control, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine , Sendai, Miyagi 980-8574 , Japan

6. Department of Virology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine , Sendai, Miyagi 980-8575 , Japan

7. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Tohoku University Hospital , Sendai, Miyagi 980-8574 , Japan

8. Intensive Care Unit, Tohoku University Hospital , Sendai, Miyagi 980-8574 , Japan

Abstract

Cargo ships are at risk of disease outbreaks like Legionella and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) due to their cramped and shared conditions. A case of medical evacuation due to co-infection of Legionella pneumophila with SARS-CoV-2 highlights the need for international infection control guidelines, information networks and molecular epidemiological approaches for identifying infection routes.

Funder

Tohoku University

Moraine Corporation

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

General Medicine

Link

https://academic.oup.com/jtm/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/jtm/taad067/50508190/taad067.pdf

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