By IDSE News Staff
A study from France identified two cases of Legionnaires’ disease potentially caused by the transmission of Legionella pneumophila from flushing the toilet (Emerg Infect Dis 2020;26[7]:1526-1528).
The study was conducted after two patients who stayed in the same room at a Paris hospital were confirmed to have been infected with L. pneumophila. One patient was hospitalized in December 2015, and the other patient in May 2016. For both patients, bronchoalveolar lavage found