(2015) Fact Sheet: Legionnaires’ Disease; Pontiac Fever For Health Professionals, August 26, 2015. Public Health, Department of (Health and Human Services, Department of)
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Abstract
Pontiac fever is a mild disease recognized as a distinctly different clinical and epidemiological form of legionnaire’s disease. The clinical symptoms occur after exposure to Legionella, but represent a reaction to inhaled antigen rather than bacterial invasion.
| Item Type: | Departmental Report |
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| Keywords: | Legionnaires’ disease, Public Health, Pontiac Fever |
| Subjects: | Health and medicine > Public health > Environmental health Health and medicine > Public health Health and medicine |
| ID Code: | 32179 |
| Deposited By: | Margaret Barr |
| Deposited On: | 05 May 2020 16:04 |
| Last Modified: | 05 May 2020 16:04 |
| URI: | https://publications.iowa.gov/id/eprint/32179 |