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ArticleEuro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin2020

Large community-acquired Legionnaires' disease outbreak caused by

Marino Faccini, Antonio Giampiero Russo, Maira Bonini, Sara Tunesi, Rossella Murtas, Monica Sandrini, Sabrina Senatore, Anna Lamberti, Giorgio Ciconali, Serafina Cammarata and 20 more

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Article in Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23citing papers in PubMed
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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

23 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Association between heavy rainfall and flooding events and infectious diseases in Europe: a rapid review, 2018 to 2025.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2026
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  3. Seasonality and effects of climatic exposures on community-acquired Legionnaires' disease incidence, Italy, 2005 to 2023.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2026
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  4. A community Legionnaires' disease outbreak linked to a collective biomass condensing boiler, France, 2019.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2025
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  6. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing reveals reduced susceptibility to azithromycin and other antibiotics in Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 isolates from Portugal.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2024
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  9. A review ofFrontiers in public health · 2024
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  12. Whole-genome sequencing of the clinical isolate ofEuropean clinical respiratory journal · 2023
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  13. Genome analysis ofLife science alliance · 2022
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  15. A Tale of Four Danish Cities:International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  19. Emerging Pulmonary Infections in Clinical Practice.Advances in clinical radiology · 2021
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  20. A Legionnaires' Disease Cluster in a Private Building in Italy.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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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

30 authors.

Marino FacciniAgency for Health Protection of Metropolitan Area of Milan (ATS), Milan, Italy.
Antonio Giampiero RussoAgency for Health Protection of Metropolitan Area of Milan (ATS), Milan, Italy.
Maira BoniniAgency for Health Protection of Metropolitan Area of Milan (ATS), Milan, Italy.
Sara TunesiAgency for Health Protection of Metropolitan Area of Milan (ATS), Milan, Italy.
Rossella MurtasAgency for Health Protection of Metropolitan Area of Milan (ATS), Milan, Italy.
Monica SandriniAgency for Health Protection of Metropolitan Area of Milan (ATS), Milan, Italy.
Sabrina SenatoreAgency for Health Protection of Metropolitan Area of Milan (ATS), Milan, Italy.
Anna LambertiAgency for Health Protection of Metropolitan Area of Milan (ATS), Milan, Italy.
Giorgio CiconaliAgency for Health Protection of Metropolitan Area of Milan (ATS), Milan, Italy.
Serafina CammarataAgency for Health Protection of Metropolitan Area of Milan (ATS), Milan, Italy.
Eros BarreseAgency for Health Protection of Metropolitan Area of Milan (ATS), Milan, Italy.
Valentina CeriottiAgency for Health Protection of Metropolitan Area of Milan (ATS), Milan, Italy.
Sonia VitalitiAgency for Health Protection of Metropolitan Area of Milan (ATS), Milan, Italy.
Marina FotiAgency for Health Protection of Metropolitan Area of Milan (ATS), Milan, Italy.
Gabriella GentiliAgency for Health Protection of Metropolitan Area of Milan (ATS), Milan, Italy.
Elisabetta GrazianoAgency for Health Protection of Metropolitan Area of Milan (ATS), Milan, Italy.
Emerico PanciroliAgency for Health Protection of Metropolitan Area of Milan (ATS), Milan, Italy.
Marco BosioAgency for Health Protection of Metropolitan Area of Milan (ATS), Milan, Italy.
Maria GramegnaDirezione Generale Welfare, Unità Organizzativa Prevenzione, Lombardy Region, Milan, Italy.
Danilo CeredaDirezione Generale Welfare, Unità Organizzativa Prevenzione, Lombardy Region, Milan, Italy.
Carlo Federico PernoDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Hospital Niguarda, Milan, Italy.
Ester MazzolaDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Hospital Niguarda, Milan, Italy.
Daniela CampisiDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Hospital Niguarda, Milan, Italy.
Gianuario AulicinoDepartment of Biomedical Sciences for Health, Post Graduate School in Public Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
Silvana CastaldiDepartment of Biomedical Sciences for Health, Post Graduate School in Public Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
Antonietta GirolamoDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
Maria Grazia CaporaliDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
Maria ScaturroDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
Maria Cristina RotaDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
Maria Luisa RicciDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In July 2018, a large outbreak of Legionnaires' disease (LD) caused by

Indexed as

Disease OutbreaksAgedCase-Control StudiesCross-Over StudiesHumansItalyLegionella pneumophilaLegionnaires' DiseaseMaleMiddle AgedMolecular TypingSequence Analysis, DNASerogroupSerotypingItalyLegionella pneumophilalegionnaires’ diseaseoutbreak

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PMID32458793
PMCPMC7262491

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