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Information to assist industrial hygienists in the assessment of work sites for potential Legionnaires' disease. Provides information on disease recognition, investigation procedures to identify probable water sources, and control strategies.

Features cause, symptoms, tests, treatment, prognosis and prevention.

Directory of factsheets, articles, and news.

Factsheet with cause, symptoms, treatment, and prevention.

Article by Mobeen Rathore, MD

Article by Frank Smeeks, MD, FAAEM.

Article by Lynn E Sullivan, MD.

Classification, description and significance, genome structure, cell structure, metabolism and ecology.

Provides an eTool designed to assist industrial hygienists in the assessment of worksites for potential Legionnaires' disease.

Factsheet with information on this disease and on Pontiac fever, a milder illness caused by the same bacteria. Includes sources, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and prevention.

Provides information on this serious pulmonary infection, including its pathophysiology, epidemiology, presentation, differential diagnosis, investigation, management, prognosis and prevention.

Scientific and medical information on the bacteria and the disease it causes.

Includes signs and symptoms, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment.

Provides information on this potentially fatal lung infection. Includes details of symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment, complications and prevention.