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Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
; 28(9): 1089-92, 2007 Sep.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-17932832
ABSTRACT
In 2004, an outbreak of legionnaires disease occurred in a hospital in northern Italy with a water system that had been disinfected multiple times since 1990 and equipped with a continuous disinfecting system. Molecular typing linked the outbreak to contamination of the hospital water system and demonstrated the persistence of a predominant strain of Legionella pneumophila for 15 years.