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Timeline of events during investigation of a hospital acquired Legionnaires' disease : in the West Bank, 2014. Abbreviations: NSAIDs: Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, ICU: Intensive Care Unit, BAL: Bronchoalveolar Lavage, Sg: Serogroup, ST: Sequence Type and AQU: Al-Quds University. Timeline represents days and the data presented are from one hospitalized patient. BAL sample was analyzed twice, at day 5 and day 10.
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In January 2014, a 66-year-old woman was admitted to hospital F in Bethlehem - West Bank (Figure S1) (day 0) after evaluation in the emergency ward for high blood pressure and severe gastric pain (Figure 1). On day 5, the patient had difficulty breathing with low oxygen and was transferred to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a specialized hospital in East Jerusalem (hospital E) (Figure S1) where bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) and sputum) were collected to be analyzed by cultivation for bacterial pathogens. On day 12, the patient recovered and was discharged (Figure 1).  On day 24 and at the request of the patient, a researcher from the Microbiology Research Laboratory collected and cultured samples from bath shower and faucets in the patients' home, but the culture was negative for L. pneumophila (Figure 1).