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Relapsing Legionella Pneumonia

Respiration, 2009
Four pneumonic episodes, always located in the upper lobe of the left lung and presenting with identical clinical manifestations and laboratory findings, occurred within 8 months in a 53-year-old man. The diagnosis of Legionella pneumophila pneumonia was established only during the 4th episode.
D, Aderka, D, Garfinkel, H, Bograd, M, Torten, R, Goldwasser, J, Pinkhas   +5 more
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Ruling Out Legionella in Community-acquired Pneumonia

American Journal of Medicine, 2014
BACKGROUND: Assessing the likelihood for Legionella sp. in community-acquired pneumonia is important because of differences in treatment regimens. Currently used antigen tests and culture have limited sensitivity with important time delays, making ...
Philipp Schuetz, Julio Ramirez, Beat Mueller   +2 more
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Legionella feeleii pneumonia and pericarditis

Journal of Infection, 1997
Legionella feeleii pneumonia has been described in seven cases, three of them being immunocompromised. We describe a case of L. feeleii pneumonia and pericarditis in a healthy man. Epidemiological survey was not conclusive. To the best of our knowledge, there have been no previous descriptions of pericarditis caused by this organism.
S, Sviri, D, Raveh, I, Boldur, R, Safadi, E, Libson, A, Ben-Yehuda   +5 more
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Fatal Legionella maceachernii pneumonia

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 1985
Legionella maceachernii, previously isolated only from the environment, was shown to be a cause of fatal pneumonia in an immunocompromised patient.
H W, Wilkinson, W L, Thacker, D J, Brenner, K J, Ryan   +3 more
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Nosocomial Legionella Pneumonia in the Neonate

Pediatrics, 1993
Since first being identified in 1976 as the cause of epidemic pneumonia at a Philadelphia American Legion convention, Legionella pneumophila has been recognized as an important cause of community-acquired and nosocomial pneumonia in adults1,2 Reports of Legionella pneumonia in childhood are unusual, however.
R E, Holmberg, A T, Pavia, D, Montgomery, J M, Clark, L D, Eggert   +4 more
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Legionella as a Cause of Severe Pneumonia

Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2000
Legionella pneumophila has been found to be a common cause of community-acquired pneumonia in patients who required intensive care unit (ICU) admission. In many studies, the clinical manifestations for Legionnaires' disease were more severe and the mortality was higher when compared with pneumonias of other etiology.
E N, Vergis, E, Akbas, V L, Yu
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Legionella Pneumonia and Serum Procalcitonin

Current Microbiology, 2004
Procalcitonin is a specific marker of severe bacterial infections with systemic inflammation. Quantitative evaluation of serum procalcitonin was performed in 140 patients with Legionella pneumonia. Positive values (>0.5 ng/mL) were found in 57.1% of the subjects.
Laura, Franzin, Daniela, Cabodi
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Legionella Pneumonia-A Neglected Diagnosis?

Acta Oto-Laryngologica, 1984
A brief survey of the epidemiology, clinical manifestations, differential diagnosis and treatment of infections with Legionella species is given, with particular emphasis on Legionella pneumophila. Because of recent epidemiological evidence that this species may be an important cause of both community-acquired and hospital-acquired pneumonia ...
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Legionella pneumonia and use of the Legionella urinary antigen test

Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2009
Keywords: community-acquired and nosocomial; diagnostic decision making; evidence based medicine ...
Elizabeth, Marlow, Chad, Whelan
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Legionella and the "New" Pneumonias

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1980
Excerpt To the editor: Several major points in Dr. Weinstein's editorial (1) should be clarified.
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