Healthcare-Associated Legionnaires' Disease, Europe, 2008-2017
| Autor: | Sven Sandin, Johan Giesecke, Diamantis Plachouras, Pär Sparén, Julien Beauté |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Microbiology (medical)
Serotype medicine.medical_specialty Epidemiology Legionella Patient demographics 030231 tropical medicine lcsh:Medicine Healthcare-Associated Legionnaires’ Disease Europe 2008−2017 Disease Legionella pneumophila healthcare-associated lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases Disease Outbreaks 03 medical and health sciences respiratory infections 0302 clinical medicine Healthcare associated Internal medicine medicine Humans lcsh:RC109-216 030212 general & internal medicine Child bacteria biology business.industry Mortality rate lcsh:R medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Europe Infectious Diseases Synopsis surveillance Legionnaires' disease Female Legionnaires' Disease business Delivery of Health Care Legionnaires’ disease |
| Zdroj: | Emerging Infectious Diseases Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 26, Iss 10, Pp 2309-2318 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 1080-6059 |
| Popis: | Healthcare-associated Legionnaires’ disease (HCA LD) can cause nosocomial outbreaks with high death rates. We compared community-acquired LD cases with HCA LD cases in Europe during 2008−2017 using data from The European Surveillance System. A total of 29 countries reported 40,411 community-acquired and 4,315 HCA LD cases. Of the HCA LD cases, 2,937 (68.1%) were hospital-acquired and 1,378 (31.9%) were linked to other healthcare facilities. The odds of having HCA LD were higher for women, children and persons 60 years of age. Out of the cases caused by Legionella pneumophila with a known serotype, community-acquired LD was more likely to be caused by L. pneumophila serogroup 1 (92.3%) than was HCA LD (85.1%). HCA LD patients were more likely to die. HCA LD is associated with specific patient demographics, causative strains, and outcomes. Healthcare facilities should consider these characteristics when designing HCA LD prevention strategies. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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