Titre : | Update : Outbreak of legionnaires'disease in Norway traced to air scrubber. (2005) |
Auteurs : | K. NYGARD |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | Eurosurveillance European communicable disease quarterly (vol. 10, n° 4-6, 2005/04) |
Pagination : | 128- |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Enquête environnementale ; Environnement ; Enquête ; Maladie légionnaire ; Epidémie ; Norvège ; Enquête cohorte ; Enquête rétrospective ; Air conditionné |
Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par InVS NHR0x2ht. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. As of 8 June 2005,55 cases of legionnaires'disease including ten deaths have been diagnosed associated with an outbreak in southeast Norway. The mean age of patients is 69 years, the median 66 years. All of the patients are Norwegian residents ; 33 are men and 22 are women. The last case was in a patient who fell ill on 25 May. (Introduction). |