Allegheny County Health Department, Approaches of prevention and control of Legionella infection in Allegheny county health care facilities, Allegheny County Health Department, Jan, 1997. Download / Print Go Back
Category: Articles on Legionnaires Disease
A proactive approach to prevention of health care–acquired Legionnaires’ disease: The Allegheny County (Pittsburgh) experience
by Squier CL, Association for Professionals in Infection Control – 3 Rivers Chapter, and the Allegheny County Health Dept. (American Journal of Infection Control, 2005) Download / Print Go Back
Role of Environmental Surveillance in Determining the Risk of Hospital-Acquired Legionellosis: A National Surveillance Study With Clinical Correlations
by Stout JE and the Legionella Study Group. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2007 28(7):818-24. Download / Print Go Back
Environmental culturing for Legionella: Can we build a better mouse trap?
Stout JE, Yu VL. Environmental culturing for Legionella: Can we build a better mouse trap? (Am J InfectControl 2010;38:341-3) Download / Print Go Back
Controlling Legionella in Hospital Drinking Water: An Evidence-Based Review of Disinfection Methods.
by Lin YE, Stout JE and Yu VL. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2011 32(2):166-173. Download / Print Go Back
Cooling towers and legionellosis: A conundrum with proposed solutions
by Yu VL (Int J Hyg Environ Health 2008;211:239-234) Download / Print Go Back
Culture Your Water System for Legionella or Not?
Yu, V.L., ” Resolving the Controversy on Environmental Cultures for Legionella: A Modest Proposal, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 19, pp. 893-897, 1998 Download / Print Go Back
Legionella surveillance: political and social implications–a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
by Victor L. Yu (Journal of Infectious Diseases 185:259-261, 2002, University of Chicago Press) Download / Print Go Back
Legionnaires’ Disease in Long-Term Care Facilities: Overview and Proposed Solutions
by Meena H. Seenivasan, Victor L. Yu, Robert R. Muder (Journal of American Geriatrics Society, 53:875-880, 2005.)Download / Print Go Back
Legionnaries’ Disease Contracted from Patient Homes: The Coming of the Third Plague?
by M.L. Pedro-Botet, Janet E. Stout and Victor L. Yu Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis, 21:699-705, 2002, Springer-Verlag Download / Print Go Back