Legionnaires' disease outbreak investigation toolbox

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3.4 APPENDIX 2: Additional literature sourced

  1. NYGARD K., WERNER-JOHANSEN O., RONSEN S., CAUGANT D. A., SIMONSEN O., KANESTROM A., ASK E., RINGSTAD J., ODEGARD R., JENSEN T., KROGH T., HOIBY E. A., RAGNHILDSTVEIT E., AABERGE I. S. & AAVITSLAND P. (2008) An outbreak of Legionnaires' disease caused by long-distance spread from an industrial air scrubber in Sarpsborg, Norway Clinical Infectious Diseases 46(1), pp.61-69 http
  2. GARCIA-FULGUEIRAS A., NAVARRO C., FENOLL D., GARCIA J., GONZALEZ-DIEGO P., JIMENEZ-BUNUALES T., RODRIGUEZ M., LOPEZ R., PACHECO F., RUIZ J., SEGOVIA M., BALADRON B. & PELAZ C. (2003) Legionnaires' disease outbreak in Murcia, Spain Emerging Infectious Diseases 9(8), pp.915 - 921 http pdf
  3. NGUYEN T. M. N., ILEF D., JARRAUD S., ROUIL L., CAMPESE C., CHE D., HAEGHEBAERT S., GANIAYRE F., MARCEL F., ETIENNE J. & DESENCLOS J.C. (2006) A community-wide outbreak of Legionnaires' disease linked to industrial cooling towers: How far can contaminated aerosols spread? Journal of Infectious Diseases 193, pp.102-111 http
  4. JANSÀ, J.M., CAYLÀ, J.A., FERRER D., GRACIA J., PELAZ C., SALVADOR M., BENAVIDES A., PELLICER T., RODRIGUEZ P., GARCÉS, J.MA., SEGURA A., GUIX J., PLASENCIA A., ARMENGOU J.MA., BOTIA A., MORENO B., FERRER A., GARCÍA DE OLALLA P., GUIX J., PAÑELLA H., PEDRO R., SANZ M., VILLALBÍ RAMÓN, J., DÍEZ A., GARCÍA-CARASUSAN M., MANZANERA R., BENEYTO V., MASDÉU, J., GARRIGA R., DOMÍNGUEZ A., SALLERAS L., ALVAREZ J., BRAVO C., FLORES J., GUDIOL F., GRAU R., MATIA L., MONTERDE R., MORELL F., OROMÍ, J., SABRIÀ, M., TRILLA A. & VAQUÉ, J (2002) An outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in an inner city district: Importance of the first 24 hours in the investigation International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 6(9), pp.831-838 http pdf
  5. DIGGLE P. & ROWLINGSON B. (1994) A conditional approach to point process modelling of elevated risk Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A 157, pp.433-440 http
  6. DUNN C. E., BHOPAL R. S., COCKINGS S., WALKER D., ROWLINGSON B. & DIGGLE P. (2007) Advancing insights into methods for studying environment-health relationships: a multidisciplinary approach to understanding Legionnaires' disease Health Place 13(3), pp.677-90 http
  7. KNOX G. (1963) Detection of low intensity epidemicity British Journal of Preventive and Social Medicine 17, pp.121-127 http pdf
  8. DEN BOER J. W, YZERMAN P. F.E., SCHELLEKENS J., LETTINGA K. D, BOSHUIZEN H. C, VAN STEENBERGEN J. E, BOSMAN A., VAN DEN HOF S., VAN VLIET H. A, PEETERS M. F., VAN KETEL R. J., SPEELMAN P., KOOL J.L., & CONYN VAN SPAENDONCK M. A. E. (2002) A large outbreak of Legionnaires' disease at a flower show, the Netherlands, 1999 Emerging Infectious Diseases 8(1), pp.37-43 http pdf
  9. KULLDORRF M., INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SERVICES INC. (2006) SaTScanTM v7.0: Software for the spatial and space-time scan statistics http://www.satscan.org http
  10. KULLDORFF M., HEFFERNAN R., HARTMAN J., ASSUNÇÃO, R. & MASTASHARI F. (2005) A space-time permutation scan statistic for disease outbreak detection PLoS Medicine 2(3): e59 http pdf
  11. MARTÍNEZ-BENEITO M. A., ABELLÁN, J. J., LÓPEZ-QUÍLEZ A., VANACLOCHA H., ZURRIAGA O., JORQUES G. & FENOLLAR J. (2006) Source detection in an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease Lecture Notes in Statistics 185(3), pp.162-182 http
  12. RIPLEY B. D. (1981) Spatial Statistics New York: Wiley
  13. BROWN C. M., NUORTI P. J., BREIMAN R. F., HATHCOCK A. L., FIELDS B. S., LIPMAN H. B., LLEWELLYN G. C., HOFMANN J. & CETRON M. (1999) A community outbreak of Legionnaires' disease linked to hospital cooling towers: An epidemiological method to calculate dose of exposure International Journal of Epidemiology 28, pp.353-359 http pdf
  14. CHE D., DECLUDT B., CAMPESE C. & DESCENCLOS J. C. (2003) Sporadic cases of community acquired legionnaires' disease: an ecological study to identify new sources of contamination Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 57, pp.466-469 http pdf
  15. EUSER S. M. (2010) Legionella pneumonia Geographic Information System: a helpful tool in cluster detection, Paper presented at ESCAIDE 2010, Lisbon, Portugal 13 November 2010. ?