Table 3. Reported culture-confirmed cases of Legionnaires’ disease and Legionella pneumophila isolates by species and serogroup, European Union/European Economic Area, 2011–2015 (n=3,645).
Species | Serogroups | Culture-confirmed cases | |
---|---|---|---|
No. | % | ||
Legionella pneumophila | serogroup 1 | 3,020 | 82.9 |
serogroup 2 | 19 | 0.5 | |
serogroup 3 | 101 | 2.8 | |
serogroup 4 | 13 | 0.4 | |
serogroup 5 | 19 | 0.5 | |
serogroup 6 | 42 | 1.2 | |
serogroup 7 | 9 | 0.2 | |
serogroup 8 | 8 | 0.2 | |
serogroup 9 | 5 | 0.1 | |
serogroup 10 | 19 | 0.5 | |
serogroup 11 | 3 | 0.1 | |
serogroup 12 | 1 | < 0.1 | |
serogroup 13 | 2 | 0.1 | |
serogroup 14 | 7 | 0.2 | |
serogroup mixed | 4 | 0.1 | |
non-serogroup 1 | 7 | 0.2 | |
serogroup unknown | 232 | 6.4 | |
L. anisa | NA | 2 | 0.1 |
L. bozemanii | NA | 15 | 0.4 |
L. cincinnatiensis | NA | 1 | < 0.1 |
L. dumoffii | NA | 2 | 0.1 |
L. longbeachae | NA | 35 | 1.0 |
L. macaechernii | NA | 1 | < 0.1 |
L. micdadei | NA | 12 | 0.3 |
L. sainthelensi | NA | 1 | 0.0 |
L. other species | NA | 27 | 0.7 |
L. species unknown | NA | 38 | 1.0 |
Total | NA | 3,645 | 100 |
This study excluded Croatia from the analysis, because it only started reporting on Legionnaires’ disease in 2013.