title: [Investigation on an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease caused by Lboz in a suburb of Beijing].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To demonstrate the infectious rates and incidence rates through epidemiological investigation.
  
  
  METHODS
  Serum samples from 203 new soldiers were detected from Lboz by TAT.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Infectious rates was 33.00% (67/203), and the incidence rates was 8.87% (18/203) with 2 cases of pneumonic type and 16 cases of pontiac fever type.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results suggested that an outbreak of Legionnaires' desease caused by Legionella bozemanii (Lboz) took place in a suburb of Beijing. However the report of the outbreak caused by Lboz had not been found in related references.
authors.affiliation: Beijing Corps Hospital, Chinese People's Armed Police Forces, Beijing 100027, China.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Deng
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Fang
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wan
mesh_terms: D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007877:Legionnaires' Disease / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008297:Male; D008889:Military Personnel