| pneumonia in a nursing home. | the authors studied nursing home residents serologically to determine whether atypical organisms were causes of radiologic pneumonia. the study was conducted at the wisconsin veterans home, a facility with on-site microbiology and x-ray. over one year, serologic examinations for legionella, mycoplasma, and chlamydia were conducted for the residents who had pneumonia. cultures and mortality were reviewed. fifty-six episodes were studied (mean resident age 78 years). there was no fourfold titer ch ... | 1994 | 7853075 |
| rapid assessment of agents of biological terrorism: defining the differential diagnosis of inhalational anthrax using electronic communication in a practice-based research network. | early detection of bioterrorism requires assessment of diagnoses assigned to cases of rare diseases with which clinicians have little experience. in this study, we evaluated the process of defining the differential diagnosis for inhalational anthrax using electronic communication within a practice-based research network (pbrn) and compared the results with those obtained from a nationwide random sample of family physicians with a mailed instrument. | 2004 | 15506577 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |