Two cases of severe pneumonia after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

• Hoofdauteurs: Shigeatu Endo (Auteur), Kohei Yamauchii (Auteur), Toshihide Nakadate (Auteur), Yutaka Nakamura (Auteur)
• Formaat: Boek
• Gepubliceerd in: World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific, 2012-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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In 2011, during the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, 90% of victims died from drowning. We report on two tsunami survivors with severe pneumonia potentially caused by Legionella pneumophila. Both victims aspirated a large quantity of contaminated water; sand, mud and a variety of microbes we...