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Eurosurveillance, Volume 3, Issue 5, 28 January 1999
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Citation style for this article: De Mateo S, Crespi S, Joseph C. Outbreak of legionnaires’ disease in Spain. Euro Surveill. 1999;3(5):pii=1459. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=1459

Outbreak of legionnaires’ disease in Spain

Seven cases of legionnaires’ disease have been associated with a hotel in Benidorm in Spain. Five of the seven cases were men and two were women, aged between 50 and 77 years. One, a 77 year old man, is known to have died. The first case arose in August, the second in October, and the rest in December 1998. Three cases have been confirmed as due to Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1. The hotel was closed at the beginning of January. An epidemiological and environmental investigation, which began in December, is still in progress.

Reported by Salvador de Mateo (smateo@isciii.es) Centro Nacional de Epidemiologia, Madrid, Sebastian Crespi (screspi@ctv.es), Policlinica Miramar, Mallorca, Spain, and Carol Joseph (cjoseph@phls.nhs.uk) on behalf of the European Working Group on Legionella Infections (EWGLI)

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