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Volume 30, Number 1—January 2024
Research

Incidence of Legionnaires’ Disease among Travelers Visiting Hotels in Germany, 2015–2019

Udo BuchholzComments to Author , Bonita Brodhun, and Ann-Sophie Lehfeld
Author affiliation: Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

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Table 1

Main characteristics of case-patients and hotels in study of incidence of Legionnaires’ disease among travelers visiting hotels in Germany, 2015–2019*

Characteristics All TALD cases Domestic TALD cases Nondomestic TALD cases p value
No. case-patients
307
163
144

Age, y†
<60 103 (34) 59 (36) 44 (31)
>60
203 (66)
104 (64)
99 (69)
0.32
Sex†
M 238 (78) 130 (80) 108 (76)
F
68 (22)
33 (20)
35 (24)
0.38
No. visited hotels
1 274 (89) 147 (90) 127 (88)
>1 33 (11) 16 (10) 17 (12) 0.57
Median (mean; range)
1 (1.16; 1–6)
1 (1.15; 1–4)
1 (1.18; 1–6)
0.58
Hotel size‡
<50 beds 109 (30) 66 (35) 43 (25)
51−199 beds 135 (38) 70 (37) 65 (38)
>200 beds 113 (32) 51 (27) 62 (37) 0.07
Median (range) no. beds 90 (4–1,920) 76 (4–1,402) 125 (9–1,920) 0.008

*Values are no. (%) except as indicated. Data were stratified according to domestic and nondomestic cases of TALD; nondomestic cases were from any of 28 countries reporting to the European Legionnaires’ Disease Surveillance Network (https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/about-us/partnerships-and-networks/disease-and-laboratory-networks/eldsnet) other than Germany. TALD, travel-associated Legionnaires' disease. †No information was available for 1 case. ‡Hotel size was categorized according to the number of beds. Multiple visited hotels per case were possible.

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