Multiple Sources of the Outbreak of Legionnaires' Disease in Genesee County, Michigan, in 2014 and 2015.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A community-wide outbreak of Legionnaires' disease (LD) occurred in Genesee County, Michigan, in 2014 and 2015. Previous reports about the outbreak are conflicting and have associated the outbreak with a change of water source in the city of Flint and, alternatively, to a Flint hospital.

Objective

The objective of this investigation was to independently identify relevant sources of Legionella pneumophila that likely resulted in the outbreak.

Methods

An independent, retrospective investigation of the outbreak was conducted, making use of public health, health care, and environmental data and whole-genome multilocus sequence typing (wgMLST) of clinical and environmental isolates.

Results

Strong evidence was found for a hospital-associated outbre

SUBMITTER: Smith AF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6957290 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature