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[Source: Eurosurveillance, full text: (LINK). Abstract, edited.]
Eurosurveillance, Volume 16, Issue 40, 06 October 2011
Rapid communications
Cluster of travel-associated Legionnaires? disease in Lazise, Italy, July to August 2011
M C Rota (
)<SUP>1</SUP>, M Scaturro<SUP>2</SUP>, S Fontana<SUP>2</SUP>, M Foroni<SUP>3</SUP>, G Boschetto<SUP>3</SUP>, L Trentin<SUP>3</SUP>, G Blengio<SUP>3</SUP>, G Bandettini<SUP>4</SUP>, T Buratto<SUP>4</SUP>, M G Caporali<SUP>1</SUP>, C Napoli<SUP>1</SUP>, M L Ricci<SUP>2</SUP>
Citation style for this article: Rota MC, Scaturro M, Fontana S, Foroni M, Boschetto G, Trentin L, Blengio G, Bandettini G, Buratto T, Caporali MG, Napoli C, Ricci ML. Cluster of travel-associated Legionnaires? disease in Lazise, Italy, July to August 2011 . Euro Surveill. 2011;16(40)
ii=19982. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19982
Date of submission: 23 September 2011 <HR>Since 18 August 2011, 17 cases of travel-associated Legionnaires? disease have been reported. They were tourists from five European countries who had stayed in five accommodation sites in Lazise, Italy. The dates of symptom onset ranged from 18 July to 25 August 2011. Control measures were implemented and no further cases associated with stays at the sites have been reported after disinfection. Timely notification of any further cases potentially associated with stay in Lazise is recommended.
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Eurosurveillance, Volume 16, Issue 40, 06 October 2011
Rapid communications
Cluster of travel-associated Legionnaires? disease in Lazise, Italy, July to August 2011
M C Rota (
- National Centre for Epidemiology, Surveillance and Health Promotion, Istituto Superiore di Sanit?, Rome, Italy
- Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-mediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanit?, Rome, Italy
- Service of Hygiene and Public Health, ULSS 22 Bussolengo, Italy
- Regional Reference Laboratory for Legionella, Padua, Italy
Citation style for this article: Rota MC, Scaturro M, Fontana S, Foroni M, Boschetto G, Trentin L, Blengio G, Bandettini G, Buratto T, Caporali MG, Napoli C, Ricci ML. Cluster of travel-associated Legionnaires? disease in Lazise, Italy, July to August 2011 . Euro Surveill. 2011;16(40)
ii=19982. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19982 Date of submission: 23 September 2011 <HR>Since 18 August 2011, 17 cases of travel-associated Legionnaires? disease have been reported. They were tourists from five European countries who had stayed in five accommodation sites in Lazise, Italy. The dates of symptom onset ranged from 18 July to 25 August 2011. Control measures were implemented and no further cases associated with stays at the sites have been reported after disinfection. Timely notification of any further cases potentially associated with stay in Lazise is recommended.