Legionnaires' disease - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2017

 European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Legionnaires’ disease. In: ECDC. Annual epidemiological report for 2017. Stockholm: ECDC; 2019. 

Surveillance report
  • Publication series: Annual Epidemiological Report
  • Time period covered: This report is based on data for 2017 retrieved from The European Surveillance System (TESSy) on 13 July 2018.
Legionnaires’ disease remains an uncommon and mainly sporadic respiratory infection with an overall notification rate in 2017 for the EU/EEA of 1.8 per 100 000.
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TEM of Legionella pneumophila bacteria. © Science Photo Library

Legionnaires’ disease is a multisystem disease which causes pneumonia due to gram-negative bacteria (Legionella spp.) found in freshwater environments around the world.

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