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[An epidemic of legionellosis at a hotel at the Makarska seashore].
Lijec Vjesn. 1990 May-Jun; 112(5-6):152-5.LV

Abstract

The paper describes the epidemic of Legionellosis that occurred among guests and employees of a hotel at the Makarska littoral in May 1988. According to the so far reported data in the medical literature that was the third epidemic in our country and all three of them occurred in the Dalmatian touristic area. In this epidemic, nine foreign tourists were registered ill with the clinical picture of Legionnaires' disease. Five patients required hospitalization. The disease could be serologically proved in 4 patients and Legionella pneumophila SG1 was isolated from samples of 2 patients and from sediment of the hot-water tank. Since the opening of the hotel until the end of May, 19 hotel employees developed a febrile illness of short duration. The disease was serologically proved in 7 of them. The morbidity rate in tourists was 2.5%, while it amounted to 7.1% in the hotel employees. The epidemic lasted for 16 days. The infection spread through the hot water, and antiepidemic measures were limited to its pasteurization and hyperchloridation. The chain of infection was broken off by the application of those measures.

Authors+Show Affiliations

Klismanić-Nuber Z
Epidemioloskog odjela, Zavod za zastitu zdravlja, Split.
Milas I
No affiliation info available
Smoljanović M
No affiliation info available
Sarić M
No affiliation info available
Gjenero-Margan I
No affiliation info available

MeSH

Disease OutbreaksHealth ResortsHumansLegionnaires' DiseaseYugoslavia

Pub Type(s)

English Abstract
Journal Article

Language

hrv

PubMed ID

2233111

Citation

Klismanić-Nuber, Z, et al. "[An Epidemic of Legionellosis at a Hotel at the Makarska Seashore]." Lijecnicki Vjesnik, vol. 112, no. 5-6, 1990, pp. 152-5.
Klismanić-Nuber Z, Milas I, Smoljanović M, et al. [An epidemic of legionellosis at a hotel at the Makarska seashore]. Lijec Vjesn. 1990;112(5-6):152-5.
Klismanić-Nuber, Z., Milas, I., Smoljanović, M., Sarić, M., & Gjenero-Margan, I. (1990). [An epidemic of legionellosis at a hotel at the Makarska seashore]. Lijecnicki Vjesnik, 112(5-6), 152-5.
Klismanić-Nuber Z, et al. [An Epidemic of Legionellosis at a Hotel at the Makarska Seashore]. Lijec Vjesn. 1990 May-Jun;112(5-6):152-5. PubMed PMID: 2233111.
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