| Infection occurs when a person breathes in water droplets that are contaminated by many legionella bacteria. |
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| It is contracted by inhaling tiny droplets from water infected with the legionella pneumonia bug. |
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| Results of blood, urine, and bronchoalveolar lavage cultures were negative, as well as serology for legionella and mycoplasma. |
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| The disease kills one in 10 of those who contract it and is caused by legionella bacteria. |
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| After more than 100 tests around the hospital, traces of the legionella bacteria were found on taps and other water outlets. |
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| Serology showed no recent mycoplasma, legionella, or rickettsial infection, and a serum cryptococcal latex agglutination test was negative. |
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| The legionella was discovered in the showers, water basins and toilets during a routine inspection. |
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| Transnational co-operation in the field of legionella infections is already well developed. |
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| A potentially fatal form of pneumonia caused by the legionella bacterium and caught by breathing in small droplets of contaminated water. |
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| The legionella bacteria were discovered on Friday at the Opera House Hotel in the Bronx. |
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| Usually, in a lot of countries, if legionella bacteria is found in any part of a building, that building is closed. |
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| Those who looked after me told me that as far as they were concerned it was legionella. |
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| Acid-fast and parasite trichrome stains of lung biopsy specimens were negative, as were direct fluorescent antibody stains for legionella and pneumocystis carinii. |
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| An angry mother has hit out at the state of Central Park Swimming Pool after the council closed it following the discovery of the killer lung bug legionella. |
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| There is no vaccine that can protect against legionella bacteria. |
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| When antibiotics active against atypical pathogens were used, only pneumonia related to legionella showed a statistically significant improvement in outcome. |
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| Several other pneumonias can mimic it, such as a close cousin TWAR, psittacosis, Q fever, adenovirus 3 and 4, influenza A or B, legionella and respiratory syncytial virus. |
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| Bacterial culture of biopsy specimens grew few coagulase negative staphylococci, while fungal, viral, and legionella cultures of the specimens were all negative. |
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| There is evidence, however, that lowering the temperature setting of the thermostat on the hot water tank creates a favourable environment for the proliferation of legionella bacteria, which cause legionnaires' disease. |
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| It was concluded that there is strong evidence that the incidence of legionella disease due to domestic hot water is significant and very likely higher than the incidence rates of scalding by tap water. |
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| It is active on: gram negative cocci and bacillus, gram positive cocci especially meti-s and meti-r staphylococci and some species with intracellular development such as legionella, Chlamydia and mycosplasma. |
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| If the storage tank is kept below ground, the lower temperatures will ensure that there is less algal growth and less chance of legionella breeding. |
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| Public Health England then tested six pools and the legionella bacterium, linked to legionnaires, was in four. |
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| Technicians test food from restaurants, dairy products, water and other samples, searching for diseases such as salmonella, legionella and virulent strains of E.coli. |
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| Nineteen employees who work in the Borax Building have tested positive for legionella, the bacteria which causes the deadly Legionnaire Disease. |
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| Governor Snyder is attempting to employ this tactic again, claiming he wasn't told of the connection, made almost a year before he informed the public, between Flint's water and the legionella bacteria. |
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| If a group of legionella bacteria is released from the biofilm and the water in which it houses is sprayed and inhaled by people with impaired immune defence it can cause the much feared legionnaires disease. |
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| A urine test can also be used to confirm that the bacteria are the Legionella bacteria. |
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| Mr Webster said the dangers of the Legionella bacteria in air conditioning systems were well known. |
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| Over 40 different strains of the Legionella germ have now been discovered. |
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| When the phagocyte finally dies, it releases a batch of new Legionella microbes ready to infect more phagocytes. |
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| The majority of the Legionella cells in water are believed to live intracellularly as protozoan parasites. |
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| Development of a standardized subgrouping scheme for Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 using monoclonal antibodies. |
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| If there were a therapeutic way to express, deliver, or induce caspase 4 and 5, humans would not get Legionella infection. |
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| Legionella are Gram-negative bacteria with a species-specific pattern of saccharide molecules on their surface, called the lipopolysaccharides. |
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| Evaluation of the Binax and Biotest urinary antigen kits for the detection of Legionnaires' disease due to multiple serogroups and species of Legionella. |
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| A PCR-based method for monitoring Legionella pneumophila in water samples detects viable but noncultivable Legionellae that can recover their cultivability. |
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