'Creature comfort' culprit in Legionnaires' disease
Abstract
Legionnaires' disease is apparently a product of the American way of life, agreed researchers attending the recent International Symposium on Legionnaires' disease at the Center for Disease Control (CDC), Atlanta.
The illness is produced by an aerobic Gram-negative bacillus that finds its way from soil into the evaporation pans and filters of large air conditioners, said Jay P. Sanford, MD, dean of the School of Medicine of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences,...