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J Epidemiol Glob Health
January 2025
Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease of Zhejiang Province, Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Background: Legionella infections are a major global health issue, yet there's limited research on their impact and trends. We aimed to systematically analyzed the long-term trends in Legionella spp. infection-associated diseases (LSIADs) burden from 1990 to 2021.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Water Health
December 2024
Laboklin GmbH & Co KG, Steubenstraße 4, 97688 Bad Kissingen, Germany.
Antimicrobial resistance is an emerging problem in hospitals and long-term healthcare facilities. Early detection of susceptibility pattern changes in pathogenic bacteria can prevent treatment failures. Therefore, this study chose to investigate the antibiotic susceptibility situation of isolates from hospitals and long-term healthcare facilities in Southern Germany.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Water Health
December 2024
Environmental Science, Policy and Research Institute, 144 Narberth Ave, Box 407, Narberth, PA 19072, USA.
is different from traditional drinking water contaminants because it presents a latent public health risk for public and private drinking water systems and for the building water systems they supply. This paper reviews information on the likelihood of occurrence of in public water systems to lay a foundation for public water systems, as a stakeholder in public health risk management, to better manage . Important to this approach is a literature review to identify conditions that could potentially promote being present in drinking water systems at either an elevated abundance or at an increased frequency of occurrence, and/or water quality and supply conditions that would contribute to its amplification.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEvolving technology and the development of new devices that can aerosolize water present a risk for new sources of Legionella bacteria growth and spread within industrial settings. We investigated a cluster of legionellosis among employees of a manufacturing facility in South Carolina, USA, and found 2 unique equipment sources of Legionella bacteria. The cluster of cases took place during August-November 2022; a total of 34 cases of legionellosis, including 15 hospitalizations and 2 deaths, were reported.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Bacteriol
December 2024
Department of Biological Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
is an environmentally acquired pathogen that causes respiratory disease in humans. While the discovery of is relatively recent compared to other bacterial pathogens, over the past 50 years, has emerged as a powerhouse for studying host-pathogen interactions. In its natural habitat of fresh water, interacts with a diverse array of protozoan hosts and readily evolve to expand their host range.
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