Source attribution of community-acquired cases of Legionnaires' disease-results from the German LeTriWa study; Berlin, 2016-2019.
Udo BuchholzHeiko Juergen JahnBonita BrodhunAnn-Sophie LehfeldMarina M LewandowskyFranziska ReberKristin AdlerJacqueline BochmannChristina FörsterMadlen KochYvonne SchreinerFabian StemmlerCorinna GagellEdith HarbichSina BärwolffAndreas BeyerUte Geuß-FosuMartina HänelPatrick LarscheidLukas MurajdaKlaus MorawskiUwe PetersRaimund PitzingAndreas von WelczeckGudrun WiddersNicoletta WischnewskiInas AbdelgawadAnke HinzmannDenis HedelerBirte SchillingSilvia SchmidtJakob SchumacherIrina ZuschneidIskandar AtmowihardjoKeikawus ArastéhSteffen BehrensPetra CreutzJohannes EliasMartina GregorStefan KahlHenning KahnertViktor KimmelJosefa LehmkePascal MigaudAgata MikolajewskaVerena MoosMaria-Barbara NaumannWulf PankowHans ScherüblBernd SchmidtThomas SchneiderHartmut StockerNorbert SuttorpDorina ThiemigCarsten GollnischUwe MannschatzWalter HaasBenedikt SchaeferChristian LückPublished in: PloS one (2020)
Using the appraisal matrix we attributed almost half of all cases of CALD to an infectious source, predominantly RDW. Risk for LD seems to be conferred primarily by the type of Legionella rather than the amount. Dentures as a new infectious source needs further, in particular, integrated microbiological, molecular and epidemiological confirmation.
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