Legionellosis acquired through a dental unit: a case study
| Autor: | Caroline Schönning, Erik Alm, Sofia Andersson, Eva Tano, D Klingenberg, Cecilia Jernberg, Birgitta Lytsy, A Pääjärvi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Microbiology (medical) Serotype Cross infection medicine.medical_specialty Fatal outcome Legionella Colony Count Microbial 030501 epidemiology Legionella pneumophila Microbiology Immunocompromised Host 03 medical and health sciences Fatal Outcome 0302 clinical medicine Internal medicine Humans Medicine Serotyping Legionella pneumophila Serogroup 1 Aged Sweden Cross Infection Legionellosis Whole Genome Sequencing biology business.industry 030206 dentistry General Medicine biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Electrophoresis Gel Pulsed-Field Hospitalization stomatognathic diseases Infectious Diseases Dental Offices Legionnaires' disease Legionnaires' Disease Water Microbiology 0305 other medical science business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Hospital Infection. 96:89-92 |
| ISSN: | 0195-6701 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jhin.2017.01.009 |
| Popis: | In 2012, an elderly immunocompromised man died from legionellosis at a hospital in Uppsala, Sweden. The patient had visited a dental ward at the hospital during the incubation period. Legionella spp. at a concentration of 2000 colony-forming units/L were isolated from the cupfiller outlet providing water for oral rinsing. Isolates from the patient and the dental unit were Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1, subgroup Knoxville and ST9. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and whole-genome sequencing strongly suggested that the isolates were of common origin. This report presents one of few documented cases of legionellosis acquired through a dental unit. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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