Publications

legionnaires' disease associated with cooling towers--massachusetts, michigan, and rhode island, 1993.	from july through october 1993, outbreaks of legionnaires' disease (ld) were reported from communities in massachusetts and rhode island and from a state prison in michigan. cooling towers (cts) were identified as the source of all three outbreaks. this report summarizes investigations by state and local health officials and cdc and efforts to control these outbreaks.	1994	8022395
from the centers for disease control and prevention. legionnaires' disease associated with cooling towers--massachusetts, michigan, and rhode island, 1993.		1994	8040968
community outbreak of legionnaires' disease: an investigation confirming the potential for cooling towers to transmit legionella species.	in august and september 1993, we investigated an outbreak of legionnaires' disease in fall river, massachusetts, that involved 11 persons; the attack rate was highest in flint, a community of fall river. all cases were infected with legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 (lp-1). a case-control study revealed that cases were more likely than matched controls to have visited sites in neighborhood a of flint. environmental sampling in flint found that four of nine aerosol-producing devices sampled cont ...	1996	8838181
amoebae and legionella pneumophila in saline environments.	amoeboid protists that harbor bacterial pathogens are of significant interest as potential reservoirs of disease-causing organisms in the environment, but little is known about them in marine and other saline environments. we enriched amoeba cultures from sediments from four sites in the new england estuarine system of mt. hope bay, massachusetts and from sediments from six sites in the great salt lake, utah. cultures of amoebae were enriched using both minimal- and non-nutrient agar plates, mad ...	2011	21301113