Best M, Yu VL, Stout J, Goetz A, Muder RR, Taylor F. “Legionellaceae in the Hospital Water Supply: Epidemiological Link with Disease and Evaluation of a Method for Control of Nosocomial Legionnaires’ Disease and Pittsburgh Pneumonia Agent.” Lancet. 1983;2:307310. Download / Print Go Back
Category: Epidemiology
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
Nosocomial Legionnaires’ disease discovered in community hospitals following cultures of the water system: seek and ye shall find.
Goetz AM, Stout JE, Jacobs SL, Fisher MA, Ponzer RE, Drenning S, Yu VL. “Nosocomial Legionnaires’ disease discovered in community hospitals following cultures of the water system: seek and ye shall find.” Am J Infect Control 1998;26:8-11. Download / Print Go Back
Pedtatric legionelloisis. Implications for underdiagnosis.
Greenberg D, Chiou C, Famigilleti R, Lee T, Yu VL. Pedtatric legionelloisis. implications for underdiagnosis. Lancet Infect Dis 2006 August ; 6: 529-535. Download / Print Go Back
Resolving the Controversy on Environmental Cultures for Legionella: A Modest Proposal
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
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
Source for Legionella infection in transplant patients: Implications for prevention.
Singh N, Stout JE, Yu VL. Source for Legionella infection in transplant patients: Implications for prevention. Transplantation 2002; 74; 755-756. 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
Prevention of Legionnaires’ disease in transplant recipients: recommendations for a standardized approach.
Prevention of Legionnaires’ disease in transplant recipients: recommendations for a standardized approach. Singh, N., Stout JE, Yu VL. Prevention of Legionnaires’ disease in transplant recipients: recommendations for a standardized approach. Transplant Infectious Diseases 2004. 6:58-62, Download / Print Go Back
Environmental survey of Legionella pneumophila in hot springs in Taiwan
Lin YE, Lu WM, Huang HI, Huang WK. “Environmental survey of Legionella pneumophila in hot springs in Taiwan.” J Toxicol Environ Health A. 2007 Jan; 70(1):84-7 Download / Print Go Back