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Volume 22, Number 7—July 2016
Letter

Confirming Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak by Genome-Based Method, Germany, 2012

Florian BurckhardtComments to Author , Andre Brion, Jeanette Lahm, Heinz-Ulrich Koch, Karola Prior, Markus Petzold, Dag Harmsen, and Christian Lück
Author affiliations: Federal State Agency for Consumer & Health Protection Rhineland-Palatinate, Landau, Germany (F. Burckhardt, A. Brion); Local Health Authority Südwestpfalz, Pirmasens, Germany (J. Lahm, H.-U. Koch); University of Münster, Münster, Germany (K. Prior, D. Harmsen); Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany (M. Petzold, C. Lück)

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Geographic distribution of cooling tower and home and work addresses (n = 23) of patients; 1 patient may be represented twice with home and work address, because place of infection is unknown. The addresses marked “immobile” belong to 2 patients who had not left their homes. Two samples had undergone core genome multilocus sequence typing (cgMLST), and sequence type (ST) 82 was typed (represented by 2 home addresses and 1 work address). For 2 samples, only ST82 was typed. Two dots in the 1-km ra

Figure. Geographic distribution of cooling tower and home and work addresses (n = 23) of patients; 1 patient may be represented twice with home and work address, because place of infection is unknown. The addresses marked “immobile” belong to 2 patients who had not left their homes. Two samples had undergone core genome multilocus sequence typing (cgMLST), and sequence type (ST) 82 was typed (represented by 2 home addresses and 1 work address). For 2 samples, only ST82 was typed. Two dots in the 1-km radius are overlapping each other. Four addresses (9 km, 10 km, 19 km, and 26 km from the cooling tower) are outside the scale of the map. Circle radii are from 1 km to 4 km, centered on the cooling tower. Shapefiles for mapping by OpenStreetMap contributors.

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