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Volume 25, Number 6—June 2019
Research Letter

National Surveillance of Legionnaires’ Disease, China, 2014–2016

Tian QinComments to Author , Hongyu Ren, Dongke Chen, Haijian Zhou, Luxi Jiang, Duorong Wu, Jilu Shen, and Fengyan Pei
Author affiliations: Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China (T. Qin, H. Ren, H. Zhou, L. Jiang); State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing (T. Qin, H. Zhou); Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Hangzhou, China (T. Qin, H. Zhou); Beijing Hospital, Beijing (D. Chen); Haikou People's Hospital, Haikou, China (D. Wu); The Fourth Affiliate Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China (J. Shen); Jinan Central Hospital, Jinan, China (F. Pei)

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Table

Characteristics of 11 Legionnaires’ disease patients, China*

Patient ID Age, y Date of diagnosis Onset city Underlying illness Length of hospitalization, d ICU admission Outcome SBT type of isolates
1 45 2014 Sep Shenyang None 15 Yes Recovered ST2344
2 70 2014 Aug Beijing None 93 Yes Recovered ST59
3 53 2015 Aug Hefei None 18 No Recovered ST2369
4 63 2016 Jan Jinan None 16 No Recovered ST42
5 67 2016 Aug Haikou Diabetes 21 No Recovered ST742
6 23 2016 Jul Beijing AIDS 7 Yes Died ST2366
7 53 2016 Sep Shanghai None 14 Yes Recovered ST2368
8 58 2016 May Lishui None 8 No Recovered NS
9 49 2014 Jul Shenyang Cirrhosis 14 Yes Died NS
10 76 2015 Jul Beijing None 17 Yes Recovered NS
11 59 2016 Sep Jinan None 22 No Recovered NS

*All patients were male. ICU, intensive care unit; ID, identification; NS, no strain isolated; SBT, sequence-based typing; ST, sequence type.

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