Legionella pneumonia: increased risk after COVID-19 lockdown? Italy, May to June 2020

We report a case of Legionella pneumonia in a dishwasher of a restaurant in Rome, Italy, just after the end of the lockdown that was in place to control the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic. The case highlights the importance of strict monitoring of water and air systems immediately before reopening business or...

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Autores principales: Palazzolo, Claudia, Maffongelli, Gaetano, D’Abramo, Alessandra, Lepore, Luciana, Mariano, Andrea, Vulcano, Antonella, Bartoli, Tommaso Ascoli, Bevilacqua, Nazario, Giancola, Maria Letizia, Di Rosa, Enrico, Nicastri, Emanuele
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2020
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Rapid Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7393852/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32734857
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.30.2001372
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author Palazzolo, Claudia
Maffongelli, Gaetano
D’Abramo, Alessandra
Lepore, Luciana
Mariano, Andrea
Vulcano, Antonella
Bartoli, Tommaso Ascoli
Bevilacqua, Nazario
Giancola, Maria Letizia
Di Rosa, Enrico
Nicastri, Emanuele
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Maffongelli, Gaetano
D’Abramo, Alessandra
Lepore, Luciana
Mariano, Andrea
Vulcano, Antonella
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Bevilacqua, Nazario
Giancola, Maria Letizia
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description We report a case of Legionella pneumonia in a dishwasher of a restaurant in Rome, Italy, just after the end of the lockdown that was in place to control the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic. The case highlights the importance of strict monitoring of water and air systems immediately before reopening business or public sector buildings, and the need to consider Legionella infections among the differential diagnosis of respiratory infections after lockdown due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-73938522020-08-10 Legionella pneumonia: increased risk after COVID-19 lockdown? Italy, May to June 2020 Palazzolo, Claudia Maffongelli, Gaetano D’Abramo, Alessandra Lepore, Luciana Mariano, Andrea Vulcano, Antonella Bartoli, Tommaso Ascoli Bevilacqua, Nazario Giancola, Maria Letizia Di Rosa, Enrico Nicastri, Emanuele Euro Surveill Rapid Communication We report a case of Legionella pneumonia in a dishwasher of a restaurant in Rome, Italy, just after the end of the lockdown that was in place to control the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic. The case highlights the importance of strict monitoring of water and air systems immediately before reopening business or public sector buildings, and the need to consider Legionella infections among the differential diagnosis of respiratory infections after lockdown due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2020-07-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7393852/ /pubmed/32734857 http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.30.2001372 Text en This article is copyright of the authors or their affiliated institutions, 2020. 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.
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Palazzolo, Claudia
Maffongelli, Gaetano
D’Abramo, Alessandra
Lepore, Luciana
Mariano, Andrea
Vulcano, Antonella
Bartoli, Tommaso Ascoli
Bevilacqua, Nazario
Giancola, Maria Letizia
Di Rosa, Enrico
Nicastri, Emanuele
Legionella pneumonia: increased risk after COVID-19 lockdown? Italy, May to June 2020
title Legionella pneumonia: increased risk after COVID-19 lockdown? Italy, May to June 2020
title_full Legionella pneumonia: increased risk after COVID-19 lockdown? Italy, May to June 2020
title_fullStr Legionella pneumonia: increased risk after COVID-19 lockdown? Italy, May to June 2020
title_full_unstemmed Legionella pneumonia: increased risk after COVID-19 lockdown? Italy, May to June 2020
title_short Legionella pneumonia: increased risk after COVID-19 lockdown? Italy, May to June 2020
title_sort legionella pneumonia: increased risk after covid-19 lockdown? italy, may to june 2020
topic Rapid Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7393852/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32734857
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.30.2001372
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