2005 - South Dakota (USA)

Place: Community

Season: Unknown

Source: Water System

Considers biofilms: Yes

Treatment used prior to the outbreak: Lack of adequate maintenance

Actions in response to the outbreak: Unknown


Clinical


Environmental


Match

Species/Serogroup

Lp1

Lp1

Sequence Type

4-7-11-3-11-12

4-7-11-3-11-12

Match

Monoclonal Antibody Type

Benidorm, Denver

Benidorm, Camperdown/Oxford

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  References
Title Authors Journal Year More
Restaurant outbreak of legionnaires' disease associated with a decorative fountain: An environmental and case-control study O'Loughlin R.E., Kightlinger L., Werpy M.C., Brown E., Stevens V., Hepper C., Keane T., Benson R.F., Fields B.S., Moore M.R. BMC Infectious Diseases 2007
Epidemiology and clinical management of Legionnaires' disease Phin N., Parry-Ford F., Harrison T., Stagg H.R., Zhang N., Kumar K., Lortholary O., Zumla A., Abubakar I. The Lancet Infectious Diseases 2014
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