| [legionnaire's disease: surveillance in france in 2005]. | legionnaire's disease is a recently described infection and surveillance in france was implemented in 1987. in 2005, 1,527 cases were notified corresponding to a population incidence rate of 2.5 per 100,000. the median age of cases was 61 years [5-100] and the male to female sex ratio was 3.0. the case fatality rate was 11%. one or more risk factors were identified for 1,084 (71%) cases. the majority of cases (91%) was diagnosed by urinary antigen detection and a strain was identified in 276 cas ... | 2007 | 17988811 |