Transmission of Legionnaires’ Disease through Toilet Flushing

We describe 2 cases of healthcare-associated Legionnaires’ disease in patients in France hospitalized 5 months apart in the same room. Whole-genome sequencing analyses showed that clinical isolates from the patients and isolates from the room’s toilet clustered together. Toilet contamination by Legi...

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Autores principales: Couturier, Jeanne, Ginevra, Christophe, Nesa, Didier, Adam, Marine, Gouot, Cyril, Descours, Ghislaine, Campèse, Christine, Battipaglia, Giorgia, Brissot, Eolia, Beraud, Laetitia, Ranc, Anne-Gaëlle, Jarraud, Sophie, Barbut, Frédéric
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7323554/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32568063
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2607.190941
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author Couturier, Jeanne
Ginevra, Christophe
Nesa, Didier
Adam, Marine
Gouot, Cyril
Descours, Ghislaine
Campèse, Christine
Battipaglia, Giorgia
Brissot, Eolia
Beraud, Laetitia
Ranc, Anne-Gaëlle
Jarraud, Sophie
Barbut, Frédéric
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Ginevra, Christophe
Nesa, Didier
Adam, Marine
Gouot, Cyril
Descours, Ghislaine
Campèse, Christine
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Brissot, Eolia
Beraud, Laetitia
Ranc, Anne-Gaëlle
Jarraud, Sophie
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description We describe 2 cases of healthcare-associated Legionnaires’ disease in patients in France hospitalized 5 months apart in the same room. Whole-genome sequencing analyses showed that clinical isolates from the patients and isolates from the room’s toilet clustered together. Toilet contamination by Legionella pneumophila could lead to a risk for exposure through flushing.
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spelling pubmed-73235542020-07-01 Transmission of Legionnaires’ Disease through Toilet Flushing Couturier, Jeanne Ginevra, Christophe Nesa, Didier Adam, Marine Gouot, Cyril Descours, Ghislaine Campèse, Christine Battipaglia, Giorgia Brissot, Eolia Beraud, Laetitia Ranc, Anne-Gaëlle Jarraud, Sophie Barbut, Frédéric Emerg Infect Dis Dispatch We describe 2 cases of healthcare-associated Legionnaires’ disease in patients in France hospitalized 5 months apart in the same room. Whole-genome sequencing analyses showed that clinical isolates from the patients and isolates from the room’s toilet clustered together. Toilet contamination by Legionella pneumophila could lead to a risk for exposure through flushing. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2020-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7323554/ /pubmed/32568063 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2607.190941 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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Couturier, Jeanne
Ginevra, Christophe
Nesa, Didier
Adam, Marine
Gouot, Cyril
Descours, Ghislaine
Campèse, Christine
Battipaglia, Giorgia
Brissot, Eolia
Beraud, Laetitia
Ranc, Anne-Gaëlle
Jarraud, Sophie
Barbut, Frédéric
Transmission of Legionnaires’ Disease through Toilet Flushing
title Transmission of Legionnaires’ Disease through Toilet Flushing
title_full Transmission of Legionnaires’ Disease through Toilet Flushing
title_fullStr Transmission of Legionnaires’ Disease through Toilet Flushing
title_full_unstemmed Transmission of Legionnaires’ Disease through Toilet Flushing
title_short Transmission of Legionnaires’ Disease through Toilet Flushing
title_sort transmission of legionnaires’ disease through toilet flushing
topic Dispatch
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7323554/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32568063
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2607.190941
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