Nonpneumonic, short-incubation-period Legionellosis (Pontiac fever) in men who cleaned a steam turbine condenser.
Pontiac fever affected ten men who had cleaned a steam turbine condenser with compressed air. Previous epidemics of Pontiac fever and Legionnaires' disease--both caused by Legionella Pneumophila (proposed sp. nov.)--involved "airborne spread" from air-conditioning cooling towers or evaporative condensers. Aerosols of contaminated water in heat-rejection systems appear to be important sources of epidemic legionellosis.
D000293:Adolescent; D000391:Air Microbiology; D006801:Humans; D007877:Legionnaires' Disease / Q000209:etiology* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000635:transmission; D008297:Male; D009787:Occupational Medicine; D013997:Time Factors