Is driving a car a risk for Legionnaires' disease?
| Autor: | Akira Ohno, Suketaka Iwanaga, Keiko Kusaka, Megumi Noami, T. Funato, Toshitaka Nakahara, Kozo Matsubayashi, Y. Kouyama, M. Takeda, Naoyuki Kato, Ryota Sakamoto, F. Kura, Keizo Yamaguchi, Kiyohito Okumiya, Kazunari Satomura |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Adult
Male Automobile Driving Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Epidemiology Legionella Legionella pneumophila law.invention Serology Japan Risk Factors law Occupational Exposure Prevalence Humans Medicine Air Conditioning Serologic Tests Occupational Health biology Potential risk business.industry Healthy subjects Middle Aged biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Infectious Diseases Transmission (mechanics) Population Surveillance Immunology Legionnaires' disease Legionnaires' Disease Legionella species business |
| Zdroj: | Epidemiology and Infection. 137:1615-1622 |
| ISSN: | 1469-4409 0950-2688 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0950268809002568 |
| Popis: | SUMMARYLegionnaires' disease (LD) is a major cause of severe community-acquired pneumonia but the source and mode of transmission are not always apparent, especially in sporadic cases. We hypothesized that LD can be acquired from the air-conditioning systems of motor cars. Swabs were taken from the evaporator compartments of the air-conditioning system of scrapped cars. Healthy subjects who were mainly employees of regional transportation companies were tested for antibody toLegionella pneumophilaserogroups 1–6; they also completed a questionnaire.Legionellaspecies were detected in 11/22 scrapped cars by the loop-mediated isothermal amplification method. The prevalence of microplate agglutination titres ⩾1:32 was significantly higher in subjects who sometimes used car air-conditioning systems. Although we did not prove a direct link betweenLegionellaspp. in the car evaporator and LD, our findings point to a potential risk of car air-conditioning systems in LD, which needs further investigation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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