PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | legionellosis |
| Phenotype | C0023241|legionnaires\' disease |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 25203696 | legionellosis, including legionnaires' disease, is an important public health problem that is escalating rapidly in the united states.1,2 the number of cases reported to us public health authorities rose from 1127 in 2000 to 3688 in 2012 and 4548 cases in 2013 (preliminary data).3–5 the centers for disease control and prevention (cdc) estimated in the 1990s that there may be 8000 to 18 000 persons hospitalized with community-acquired legionnaires' disease.6 current data may lead to higher estimates. |
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