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Volume 28, Number 1—January 2022
Synopsis

Potential Association of Legionnaires’ Disease with Hot Spring Water, Hot Springs National Park and Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA, 2018–2019

Allison E. JamesComments to Author , Kurt Kesteloot, J. Terry Paul, Richard L. McMullen, Shirley Louie, Catherine Waters, Jennifer Dillaha, Joel Tumlison, Dirk T. Haselow, Jessica C. Smith, Sooji Lee, Troy Ritter, Claressa Lucas, Jasen Kunz, Laura A. Miller, and Maria A. Said
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (A.E. James, J.C. Smith, S. Lee, T. Ritter, C. Lucas, J. Kunz); US Public Health Service, Rockville, Maryland, USA (K. Kesteloot, T. Ritter, M. Said); US National Park Service, Washington, DC, USA (K. Kesteloot, L.A. Miller, M. Said); Arkansas Department of Health, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA (J.T. Paul, R.L. McMullen, S. Louie, C. Waters, J. Dillaha, J. Tumlison, D.T. Haselow)

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Table 3

Positive environmental culture sample collection dates and locations, Legionella species and serogroup, and temperature of sampled water, Hot Springs National Park and Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA, 2018–2019

Sample collection date Location of positive sample Species/serogroup Temperature of sampled water*
2019 Sep 18
 Bathhouse A (poolside shower)
 Legionella pneumophila 2–14
 Not documented
2019 Oct 4
 Bathhouse A (basement pipe) L. pneumophila 2–14 134°F
Bathhouse C (hot water soaking tub faucet) L. pneumophila 2–14 128°F
Bathhouse C (cooled water soaking tub faucet) Legionella spp. 96°F
Facility X (hot springs water spigot)
 L. pneumophila 2–14
 119°F
2019 Nov 12 Facility Y (cooled spring water supply) L. pneumophila 2–14 73°F

*Water temperatures were not documented until the October 2019 round of testing.

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