National Legionella Observatory Italy · Annual edition
STATE OF LEGIONELLA ITALY — ANNUAL REPORT 2024
English edition of the 2024 flagship report.
Executive summary
Published 2024-06-01 · Last modified 2024-06-01
This is the 2024 edition of the State of Legionella Italy annual report, published by the National Legionella Observatory Italy. The report consolidates surveillance data from the Italian National Institute of Health (ISS), the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and a network of ISO/IEC 17025 accredited laboratories operating across all 20 Italian regions. The methodology is aligned with UNI EN ISO 11731:2017 (environmental sampling) and the Italian State-Regions Agreement of 7 May 2015 (national guidelines on Legionella risk assessment).
A full Italian-language version, with case studies, recommendations and the regional choropleth map, is available at /osservatorio/annual-report/2024.
Headline figures — 2024 edition
The values are also documented in machine-readable form on the dataset page.
- Casi notificati (ISS)
- 2.964
- Casi di legionellosi notificati nel 2019 in Italia secondo SEIEVA, baseline pre-pandemica usata come riferimento.
- Incidenza nazionale
- 5,3 /100k
- Tasso medio per 100.000 abitanti — sopra la media europea ECDC (1,8 /100k) come da anni precedenti.
- Sopralluoghi positivi
- 48,2%
- Quota di sopralluoghi tecnici 2024 con almeno un punto di prelievo >=50 UFC/L su 1.200 audit editoriali.
- RSA sopra soglia
- 61%
- Residenze sanitarie assistenziali con almeno un punto di prelievo >=50 UFC/L — settore più critico del campione.
- Regioni coperte
- 20
- Tutte le regioni italiane rappresentate nel dataset; sotto-rappresentazione strutturale di Sud e Isole.
APA 7 reference
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Osservatorio Nazionale Legionella Italia. (2024). State of Legionella Italy — Annual Report 2024 [Report tecnico]. 123 Legionella. https://123legionella.com/osservatorio/annual-report/2024