Increase in Legionnaires’ disease cases associated with travel to Dubai among travellers from the United Kingdom, Sweden and the Netherlands, October 2016 to end August 2017

Between 1 October 2016 and 31 August 2017, 51 Legionnaires’ disease (LD) cases from the United Kingdom, Sweden and the Netherlands were identified with associated travel to Dubai. Cases did not all stay in the same accommodation, indicating that no single accommodation could be the source for all th...

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Autores principales: Dabrera, Gavin, Brandsema, Petra, Lofdahl, Margareta, Naik, Falguni, Cameron, Ross, McMenamin, Jim, Pebody, Richard, Phin, Nick
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2017
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Rapid Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5709948/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28935023
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.38.30618
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author Dabrera, Gavin
Brandsema, Petra
Lofdahl, Margareta
Naik, Falguni
Cameron, Ross
McMenamin, Jim
Pebody, Richard
Phin, Nick
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description Between 1 October 2016 and 31 August 2017, 51 Legionnaires’ disease (LD) cases from the United Kingdom, Sweden and the Netherlands were identified with associated travel to Dubai. Cases did not all stay in the same accommodation, indicating that no single accommodation could be the source for all these infections. While local investigations continue into other potential sources, clinicians should remain alert to the possibility of LD among travellers returning from Dubai with respiratory illness.
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spelling pubmed-57099482017-12-07 Increase in Legionnaires’ disease cases associated with travel to Dubai among travellers from the United Kingdom, Sweden and the Netherlands, October 2016 to end August 2017 Dabrera, Gavin Brandsema, Petra Lofdahl, Margareta Naik, Falguni Cameron, Ross McMenamin, Jim Pebody, Richard Phin, Nick Euro Surveill Rapid Communication Between 1 October 2016 and 31 August 2017, 51 Legionnaires’ disease (LD) cases from the United Kingdom, Sweden and the Netherlands were identified with associated travel to Dubai. Cases did not all stay in the same accommodation, indicating that no single accommodation could be the source for all these infections. While local investigations continue into other potential sources, clinicians should remain alert to the possibility of LD among travellers returning from Dubai with respiratory illness. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2017-09-21 /pmc/articles/PMC5709948/ /pubmed/28935023 http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.38.30618 Text en This article is copyright of The Authors, 2017. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.
spellingShingle Rapid Communication
Dabrera, Gavin
Brandsema, Petra
Lofdahl, Margareta
Naik, Falguni
Cameron, Ross
McMenamin, Jim
Pebody, Richard
Phin, Nick
Increase in Legionnaires’ disease cases associated with travel to Dubai among travellers from the United Kingdom, Sweden and the Netherlands, October 2016 to end August 2017
title Increase in Legionnaires’ disease cases associated with travel to Dubai among travellers from the United Kingdom, Sweden and the Netherlands, October 2016 to end August 2017
title_full Increase in Legionnaires’ disease cases associated with travel to Dubai among travellers from the United Kingdom, Sweden and the Netherlands, October 2016 to end August 2017
title_fullStr Increase in Legionnaires’ disease cases associated with travel to Dubai among travellers from the United Kingdom, Sweden and the Netherlands, October 2016 to end August 2017
title_full_unstemmed Increase in Legionnaires’ disease cases associated with travel to Dubai among travellers from the United Kingdom, Sweden and the Netherlands, October 2016 to end August 2017
title_short Increase in Legionnaires’ disease cases associated with travel to Dubai among travellers from the United Kingdom, Sweden and the Netherlands, October 2016 to end August 2017
title_sort increase in legionnaires’ disease cases associated with travel to dubai among travellers from the united kingdom, sweden and the netherlands, october 2016 to end august 2017
topic Rapid Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5709948/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28935023
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.38.30618
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