Population-Based Assessment of Clinical Risk Factors for Legionnaires' Disease

Laura A Cooley; Tracy Pondo; Louise K Francois Watkins; Priti Shah; Stephanie Schrag; Active Bacterial Core Surveillance Program of the Emerging Infections Program Network

doi:10.1093/cid/ciz771

Population-Based Assessment of Clinical Risk Factors for Legionnaires' Disease

Clin Infect Dis. 2020 May 23;70(11):2428-2431. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciz771.

Authors

Laura A Cooley¹, Tracy Pondo¹, Louise K Francois Watkins^{1

2}, Priti Shah¹, Stephanie Schrag¹; Active Bacterial Core Surveillance Program of the Emerging Infections Program Network

Collaborators

Active Bacterial Core Surveillance Program of the Emerging Infections Program Network:
Duc Vugia, Nisha Alden, Matthew Cartter, Stephanie Stepy Thomas, Patricia A Ryan, Ellen Laine, Eva Pradhan, John Dunn

Affiliations

¹ Division of Bacterial Diseases, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
² Epidemic Intelligence Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Abstract

We used US population-based surveillance data to characterize clinical risk factors for Legionnaires' disease (LD). The LD incidence increased by age and the risk was elevated for 12 clinical conditions, when compared to healthy adults. This information can be used to guide testing, treatment, and public health prevention efforts.

Keywords: Legionnaires’ disease; diagnosis; outbreak prevention; outbreak response; risk factors.

Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2019.

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Adult
Disease Outbreaks
Humans
Legionella pneumophila*
Legionnaires' Disease* / diagnosis
Legionnaires' Disease* / epidemiology
Population Surveillance
Risk Factors

Grants and funding

CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHS/United States