Legionnaires’ Disease
Building a Better World for You
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12452336 |
|---|---|
| Authors | George Dehner (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 522-544 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1084-5453 • E-ISSN: 1930-8892 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1093/envhis/emy046 |
| OpenAlex | W2804057045 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
The emergent or newly reemerging disease model often relies on poverty as a contributing factor in the transmission of infectious diseases. But as Andrew Price-Smith has argued, affluence can also be a factor in the enhanced transmission of infection. Legionnaires’ disease, first identified in 1976 as the cause of a novel disease outbreak in Philadelphia, fits the model of such a disease of affluence. The Legionella bacteria readily finds niches in the equipment and systems of the modern-built environment designed to deliver and store fresh water for the comfort of its inhabitants. Ubiquitous in freshwater sources around the world, the built environment constitutes a “better” world for Legionella population increase and is likely to facilitate expanding outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease
Bacteria · Biology · Disease · Disease transmission · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Geography · Infectious disease (medical specialty · Legionella · Legionella pneumophila · Legionnaires' disease · Outbreak · Pathology · Population · Poverty · Telecommunications · Transmission (telecommunications · Computer Science · Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure · Legionella and Acanthamoeba research · Medicine · Vibrio bacteria research studies · Virology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |