Nosocomial (Health Care-Associated) Legionnaire's Disease.

Nosocomial (Health Care-Associated) Legionnaire's Disease.

Agarwal Shanu; Abell Virginia; File Thomas M Jr

Infectious disease clinics of North America

2017

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Nosocomial Legionnaire's disease is most frequently associated with presence of the organism in hospital water systems. Patients are often susceptible as a result of age, underlying comorbidities, or immunosuppression. Prevention focuses on reducing the reservoir within water systems and includes super heating, ultraviolent light, chlorination, silver-copper ionization, and distal filtration. This article reviews the epidemiology of health care-associated Legionnaire's disease, reviews characteristics of several health care-associated outbreaks, and discusses strategies to prevent health care-associated infection.

*Cross Infection/diagnosis/epidemiology/prevention & control; *Disease Outbreaks; *Health care-associated; *Legionella; *Legionnaires' Disease/diagnosis/epidemiology/prevention & control; *Nosocomial; *Outbreaks; *Prevention; Hospitals; Humans; Water Microbiology

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