Host‐Related Risk Factors and Clinical Features of Community‐Acquired Legionnaires Disease Due to the Paris and Lorraine Endemic Strains, 1998–2007, France
Author(s) -
Christophe Ginévra,
Antoine Duclos,
Philippe Vanhems,
Christine Campèse,
Françoise Forey,
Gérard Lina,
Didier Che,
Jerome Etienne,
Sophie Jarraud
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1086/599825
Subject(s) - legionnaires' disease , odds ratio , medicine , epidemiology , legionella pneumophila , legionella , disease , lymphogranuloma venereum , logistic regression , confidence interval , immunology , biology , bacteria , genetics , chlamydia trachomatis
In France, Legionnaires disease is mainly caused by Legionella pneumophila. Here, we investigated possible host factors associated with susceptibility to community-acquired Legionnaires disease caused by the endemic Paris and Lorraine strains.
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