Publications

[an outbreak of pontiac fever due to legionella pneumophila serogroup 7. i. clinical aspects].	in august 1994, an epidemic of acute febrile illness occurred at the education center building of a company in shibuya-ku, tokyo. all 43 trainees attended in two groups and 2 staff members of the center fell ill. the 45 patients came to one of our hospitals in two groups, and 35 patients were treated. the patients were 4 males and 31 females, and the average age was 29.0 years. the duration until falling ill was 36 to 90 hours after entering the center. symptoms were fever, lumbago arthralgia, h ...	1995	7616010
[an outbreak of pontiac fever due to legionella pneumophila serogroup 7. ii. epidemiological aspects].	from august 20 to 22, 1994, an outbreak of acute febrile illness occurred in a training center building of a company in shibuya-ku, tokyo. all 43 trainees attended in two groups and 2 center staffs were attacked. illness was self- limiting, generally lasting three days. though strains of legionellae, isolated from the water of the cooling tower located at the top of the building, were identified as legionella pneumophila by microplate dna-dna hybridization, they failed to agglutinate with antise ...	1995	7616011
[occurrence of legionella bacteria in a variety of environmental waters--from april, 1996 to november, 2000].	the present paper deals with the occurrence of legionella bacteria in a variety of man-made environmental waters, including whirlpool bathes, cooling towers and others, from april 1996 to november 2000 in the eastern part of japan around tokyo area. a total of 2,895 water samples were examined for the possible occurrence of legionella, and 904 (31%) were demonstrated to be positive. among the various water sources, legionella were frequently detected both in whirlpool bathes and in cooling tower ...	2002	12391673