2012 - Zweibrücken (Germany)

Place: Community

Season: Spring/Summer

Source: Cooling Tower

Considers biofilms: No

Treatment used prior to the outbreak: Lack of a centralized register of cooling towers

Actions in response to the outbreak: A code of conduct for maintenance of towers was introduced after the outbreak


Clinical


Environmental


Match

Species/Serogroup

Lp1

Lp1

Sequence Type

ST82

Unknown

Possible match

Monoclonal Antibody Type

Allentown-France

Philadelphia

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  References
Title Authors Journal Year More
Confirming legionnaires’ disease outbreak by genome-based method, Germany, 2012 Burckhardt F., Brion A., Lahm J., Koch H.-U., Prior K., Petzold M., Harmsen D., Lück C. Emerging Infectious Diseases 2016