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Science 17 August 1979:
Vol. 205. no. 4407, pp. 690 - 691
DOI: 10.1126/science.462175
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Science, Vol 205, Issue 4407, 690-691
Copyright © 1979 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Nonpneumonic, short-incubation-period Legionellosis (Pontiac fever) in men who cleaned a steam turbine condenser

DW Fraser, DC Deubner, DL Hill, and DK Gilliam

Pontiac fever affected ten men who had cleaned a steam turbine condenser with compressed air. Previous epidemics of Pontiac fever and Legionnaires' disease--both caused by Legionella Pneumophila (proposed sp. nov.)--involved "airborne spread" from air-conditioning cooling towers or evaporative condensers. Aerosols of contaminated water in heat-rejection systems appear to be important sources of epidemic legionellosis.


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