Two Related Occupational Cases of Legionella longbeachae Infection, Quebec, Canada

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Picard-Masson, Marianne ; Lajoie, Élisabeth ; Lord, Judith ; Lalancette, Cindy ; Marchand, Geneviève ; Levac, Éric ; Lemieux, Marc-André ; Hudson, Patricia ; Lajoie, Louise
• Description:
  Two patients with no exposure to gardening compost had related Legionella longbeachae infections in Quebec, Canada. Epidemiologic investigation and laboratory results from patient and soil samples identified the patients' workplace, a metal recycling plant, as the likely source of infection, indicating a need to suspect occupational exposure for L. longbeachae infections.
• Subjects:
  Dispatch Humans Legionella Longbeachae/isolation & Purification Legionellosis/epidemiology Legionellosis/microbiology Occupational Exposure Quebec/epidemiology Risk Factors Soil Microbiology
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 22(7):1289-1291.
• Pubmed ID:
  27314946
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4918178
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Quebec, Canada
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  22
• Issue:
  7
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:c96ba135510c2b7e9beef916e883f88dc59ce0b2ff5012e164d1fd9281e3f14a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/40204/cdc_40204_DS1.pdf
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