Abstract:On September 10, 2021, the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit in Ontario, Canada, received a case report of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 in a patient (case 1) hospitalized for pneumonia. A second case (case 2) within the same household was also identified. Case 1 was laboratory diagnosed by urine antigen testing, whereas case 2 was diagnosed by PCR and culture from a respiratory specimen collected from case 2, both at Public Health Ontario Laboratory, Ontario, Canada. Cases were linked… Show more
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