RESUMO
Materials of investigation of Legionnaires' disease outbreak in one of the town of Sverdlovsk region in summer 2007 are presented. Outbreak arose in situation of epidemiologic welfare on majority of registered infectious diseases. Epidemiologic diagnostics of the outbreak has been performed in maximal shorttime interval, during which it was necessary to investigate variety of miscellaneous versions. Active search of the source of the infection and its transmission factors resulted in desired result and allowed to terminate the outbreak in 14 days.
Assuntos
Surtos de Doenças , Microbiologia Ambiental , Legionella pneumophila/isolamento & purificação , Doença dos Legionários/epidemiologia , Temperatura Alta , Humanos , Doença dos Legionários/diagnóstico , Fatores de Risco , Federação Russa/epidemiologia , População Urbana , Abastecimento de ÁguaRESUMO
Materials of investigation of Legionnaires' disease outbreak in town Verkhnyaya Pyshma (Sverdlovsk region) are presented. Features of epidemic process during this outbreak were reflected, its epidemiologic characteristics were described. Effectiveness of timely antiepidemic measures directed at elimination of main factor of infection's transmissibility was shown.
