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Legionnaire Disease
Reports outline legionnaire disease research from Center for Infections
July 14th, 2009
A report, 'Weather patterns and Legionnaires' disease: a meteorological study,' is newly published data in Epidemiology and Infection. According to recent research from London, the United Kingdom, "This study examined the impact of meteorological conditions on sporadic, community-acquired cases of Legionnaires' disease in U.K. and Wales (2003-2006), with reference to the 2006 increase in cases. A case-crossover methodology compared each case with self-controlled data using a conditional logistic regression analysis." "Effect modification by quarter and year was explored. In total, 674 cases were entered into the dataset and two meteorological variables were...
Source: World Disease Weekly (2009-07-14)
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