Meteorological factors and risk of community-acquired Legionnaires' disease in Switzerland: an epidemiological study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The aim of this study was to identify meteorological factors that could be associated with an increased risk of community-acquired Legionnaires' disease (LD) in two Swiss regions.

Design

Retrospective epidemiological study using discriminant analysis and multivariable Poisson regression.

Setting

We analysed legionellosis cases notified between January 2003 and December 2007 and we looked for a possible relationship between incidence rate and meteorological factors.

Participants

Community-acquired LD cases in two Swiss regions, the Canton Ticino and the Basle region, with climatically different conditions were investigated.

Primary outcome measures

Vapour pressure, temperature, relative humidity, wind, precipitation and radiation recorded in we

SUBMITTER: Conza L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3612760 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature