Two Legionnaires' disease cases associated with industrial waste water treatment plants: a case report
Open Access
- 2 December 2010
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 10 (1) , 343
Abstract
Finnish and Swedish waste water systems used by the forest industry were found to be exceptionally heavily contaminated with legionellae in 2005.Keywords
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