Community Outbreak of Legionnaires' Disease: An Investigation Confirming the Potential for Cooling Towers to Transmit Legionella Species

An Outbreak of Legionnaires' Disease Associated with a Contaminated Air-Conditioning Cooling Tower

1980 • 413 citations

LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE IN A TRANSPLANT UNIT: ISOLATION OF THE CAUSATIVE AGENT FROM SHOWER BATHS

1980 • 249 citations

Isolation of protozoa from water associated with a legionellosis outbreak and demonstration of intracellular multiplication of Legionella pneumophila

1986 • 226 citations

Nosocomial Legionnaires' Disease Caused by Aerosolized Tap Water from Respiratory Devices

1982 • 216 citations

Mode of Transmission of Legionella pneumophila

1986 • 165 citations

Association of shower use with Legionnaires' disease. Possible role of amoebae

1990 • 148 citations

LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE OUTBREAK AT AN ATLANTA, GEORGIA, COUNTRY CLUB: EVIDENCE FOR SPREAD FROM AN EVAPORATIVE CONDENSER

1980 • 131 citations

Detection of Legionella species in sewage and ocean water by polymerase chain reaction, direct fluorescent-antibody, and plate culture methods

1993 • 127 citations

COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE ASSOCIATED WITH A COOLING TOWER: EVIDENCE FOR LONGER-DISTANCE TRANSPORT OF LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA

1989 • 121 citations

Nosocomial Legionnaires' Disease and Use of Medication Nebulizers

1991 • 119 citations

Nosocomial Legionnaires' disease. Epidemiologic demonstration of cooling towers as a source

1985 • 112 citations

Role of Air Sampling in Investigation of an Outbreak of Legionnaires' Disease Associated with Exposure to Aerosols from an Evaporative Condenser

1990 • 107 citations

Rapid Radioimmunoassay Diagnosis of Legionnaires' Disease

1981 • 107 citations

The Stafford outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease

1990 • 100 citations

Communitywide Outbreak of Legionnaires' Disease Associated with a Grocery Store Mist Machine

1992 • 100 citations

Proximity of the home to a cooling tower and risk of non-outbreak Legionnaires' disease.

1991 • 92 citations

A COMMUNITY HOSPITAL OUTBREAK OF LEGIONELLOSIS

1987 • 88 citations

Comparison of arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction, ribotyping, and monoclonal antibody analysis for subtyping Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1

1993 • 83 citations

Rapid detection of Legionella species in bronchoalveolar lavage fluids with the EnviroAmp Legionella PCR amplification and detection kit

1993 • 80 citations

Association of Legionnaires' Disease with Construction: Contamination of Potable Water?

1995 • 78 citations

Evaluation of commercial amplification kit for detection of Legionella pneumophila in clinical specimens

1994 • 64 citations

Legionella pneumophila in cooling water systems: Report of a survey of cooling towers in London and a pilot trial of selected biocides

1982 • 63 citations

LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE: THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF TWO OUTBREAKS IN BURLINGTON, VERMONT, 1980

1984 • 57 citations

Mode of transmission of Legionella pneumophila. A critical review

1986 • 34 citations

Two outbreaks of Legionnaires' disease in Bolton Health District

1990 • 33 citations

Association of Legionnaires' Disease with Construction: Contamination of Potable Water?

1995 • 26 citations

A community hospital outbreak of legionellosis. Transmission by potable hot water

1987 • 7 citations

Outbreak of Pneumonia Associated With a Cruise Ship, 1994

1994 • 6 citations