Publications

community-acquired legionnaires' disease associated with a cooling tower: evidence for longer-distance transport of legionella pneumophila.	in the period august 10-29, 1986, 29 confirmed cases of legionnaires' disease occurred in sheboygan, wisconsin; two cases were fatal. no common source of indoor exposure was identified. water specimens were obtained from all known cooling tower units in sheboygan; legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 was isolated at 1 x 10(6) colony-forming units per liter from a specimen obtained august 27 at plant a. this isolate was identical to the only clinical isolate by monoclonal antibody and isoenzyme sub ...	1989	2764000
epidemic legionnaires' disease. airborne transmission down a chimney.	between june 18 and july 9, 1979, legionnaires' disease (ld) developed in 13 persons who had visited a hotel complex in wisconsin. all had visited the part of the hotel that contains the restaurants and meeting rooms (building a). legionnaires' disease occurred in 1% who had been exclusively in the meeting rooms and in 0.1% who had eaten only at the hotel restaurants. furthermore, 1.5% exposed to meeting room 1 and none of those exposed only to the other meeting rooms had ld. legionella pneumoph ...	1981	7230470
an outbreak of legionnaires disease associated with a decorative water wall fountain in a hospital.	objective. to detect an outbreak-related source of legionella, control the outbreak, and prevent additional legionella infections from occurring. design and setting. epidemiologic investigation of an acute outbreak of hospital-associated legionnaires disease among outpatients and visitors to a wisconsin hospital. patients. patients with laboratory-confirmed legionnaires disease who resided in southeastern wisconsin and had illness onsets during february and march 2010. methods. patients with ...	2012	22227989