Authors’ response: importance of a careful investigation to avoid attributing Legionnaires’ disease cases to an incorrect source of infection

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Authors’ response: importance of a careful investigation to avoid attributing Legionnaires’ disease cases to an incorrect source of infection
Claudia Palazzolo¹ , Gaetano Maffongelli¹ , Alessandra D’Abramo¹ , Luciana Lepore¹ , Andrea Mariano¹ , Antonella Vulcano¹ , Tommaso Ascoli Bartoli¹ , Nazario Bevilacqua¹ , Maria Letizia Giancola¹ , Enrico Di Rosa² , Emanuele Nicastri¹
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Affiliations: ¹ National Institute for Infectious Diseases ‘Lazzaro Spallanzani’ IRCCS, Rome, Italy ² Local Health Office, ASL Roma 1, Rome, Italy

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Citation style for this article: Palazzolo Claudia, Maffongelli Gaetano, D’Abramo Alessandra, Lepore Luciana, Mariano Andrea, Vulcano Antonella, Bartoli Tommaso Ascoli, Bevilacqua Nazario, Giancola Maria Letizia, Di Rosa Enrico, Nicastri Emanuele. Authors’ response: importance of a careful investigation to avoid attributing Legionnaires’ disease cases to an incorrect source of infection. Euro Surveill. 2020;25(34):pii=2001570. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.34.2001570 Received: 19 Aug 2020; Accepted: 27 Aug 2020

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