Marilena La Sorda, Flavio De Maio, Maria Scaturro, Barbara Fiori, Giulia Santarelli, Jessica Iera, Fabiola Mancini, Brunella Posteraro, Maria Luisa Ricci, Maurizio Sanguinetti
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Abstract
The pandemic marked the beginning of an era of dynamic and rapid changes in the diagnosis of respiratory infections. Herein we describe Legionnaires' disease trend in the years 2016-2023 in a large Italian hospital showing how improvements in diagnostic algorithms impact on its detection.
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