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ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2017

Outbreak of Legionnaire's Disease Caused by Legionella pneumophila Serogroups 1 and 13.

Toshiro Kuroki, Junko Amemura-Maekawa, Hitomi Ohya, Ichiro Furukawa, Miyuki Suzuki, Tomoka Masaoka, Kastuhiro Aikawa, Kazumi Hibi, Masatomo Morita, Ken-Ichi Lee and 2 more

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Article in Emerging infectious diseases, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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17citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. MixedInfectious disease reports · 2026
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  3. Evaluating Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy with IR Biotyper as a faster and simpler method for investigating the sources of an outbreak of legionellosis.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2024
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  4. A review ofFrontiers in public health · 2024
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  5. Investigation of aMicroorganisms · 2022
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  6. Surveillance ofMicroorganisms · 2022
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  8. A Community Outbreak of Legionnaires' Disease with Two Strains ofInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  9. Review
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  11. Legionellosis in Japan: A Self-inflicted Wound?Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) · 2021
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  13. Analysis of Genetic Characterization and Clonality ofInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2019
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  16. Draft Genome Sequence ofGenome announcements · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Toshiro Kuroki
Junko Amemura-Maekawa
Hitomi Ohya
Ichiro Furukawa
Miyuki Suzuki
Tomoka Masaoka
Kastuhiro Aikawa
Kazumi Hibi
Masatomo Morita
Ken-Ichi Lee
Makoto Ohnishi
Fumiaki Kura
Kanagawa Prefectural Institute of Public Health · JPStanford University · USNational Institute of Infectious Diseases · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In Japan, hot springs and public baths are the major sources of legionellosis. In 2015, an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease occurred among 7 patients who had visited a spa house. Laboratory investigation indicated that L. pneumophila serogroup 1 and 13 strains caused the outbreak and that these strains were genetically related.

Indexed as

Disease OutbreaksElectrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-FieldGenes, BacterialHumansJapanLegionella pneumophilaLegionnaires' DiseaseMultilocus Sequence TypingSerogroupWater Microbiologybacteriadual infectionJapanLegionella pneumophilaLegionnaire’s diseaseoutbreakpneumoniaserogroupspa house

Identifiers

PMID28098535
PMCPMC5324795
OpenAlexW2571535399

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