2009 - Maryland (USA)

Place: Assisted Living Facility

Season: Autumn/Winter

Source: Water System

Considers biofilms: No

Treatment used prior to the outbreak: Lack of adequate maintenance (no detectable biocide)

Actions in response to the outbreak: Unknown


Clinical


Environmental


Match

Species/Serogroup

Lp1

Lp1

Sequence Type

ST222

ST222

Match

Monoclonal Antibody Type

Knoxville

Knoxville

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  References
Title Authors Journal Year More
Legionnaires' disease case-finding algorithm, attack rates, and risk factors during a residential outbreak among older adults: An environmental and cohort study Silk B.J., Foltz J.L., Ngamsnga K., Brown E., Muñoz M.G., Hampton L.M., Jacobs-Slifka K., Kozak N.A., Underwood J.M., Krick J., Travis T., Farrow O., Fields B.S., Blythe D., Hicks L.A. BMC Infectious Diseases 2013
Prevalence of sequence types among clinical and environmental isolates of legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 in the United States from 1982 to 2012 Kozak-Muiznieks N.A., Lucas C.E., Brown E., Pondo T., Taylor Jr. T.H., Frace M., Miskowski D., Winchell J.M. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 2014
Surveillance for waterborne disease outbreaks associated with drinking water and other nonrecreational water - United States, 2009-2010 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2013