Legionnaires' disease cannot be clinically or radiographically distinguished from other causes of pneumonia, and specific tests are required to make the diagnosis. Currently, testing occurs erratically and, instead, clinicians rely on empiric treatment strategies and ignore public health implications of the diagnosis. We aimed to measure the increase in case detection of Legionnaires' disease following the introduction of routine polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing of respiratory specimens. PCR is the most sensitive diagnostic tool for Legionnaires' disease.
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 July 2017.
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