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K W Allen1, H Prempeh, M S Osman
1Barnsley and Doncaster Health Authorities. ken.allen@gw.barnsley-ha.trent.nhs.uk
Abstract:
After a worker from a plastics factory was diagnosed with legionella pneumonia it was learnt that a retired employee at the factory had been in hospital with a serious chest infection six months before and legionella pneumonia was diagnosed in retrospect from stored serum. The likeliest common source was a machine cooling system that took water from an uncovered water tank outdoors (from which Legionella pneumophila was isolated) and which generated an aerosol through a crack in the flow meter sight glass.
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