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Legionnaires' Disease in Non-Legionnaires

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1978
Seventeen patients with illness resembling Legionnaires' disease were evaluated for antibodies to the Legionnaires' bacillus. Three patients were Legionnaires who developed pneumonia after attending the July 1976 convention. All three were seropositive (titers greater than or equal to 1:128) to the Legionnaires' bacillus.
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Hyponatremia in Legionnaires' Disease

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1979
Excerpt To the editor: The article of Dr. Kirby and associates (1) on legionnaires' disease mentions hyponatremia as a common laboratory finding in their 24 patients with Legionnaires' disease.
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Epidemiology of Legionnaires' Disease

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1979
Ten recorded epidemics of Legionnaires' disease are reviewed to gain a working perspective on the epidemiology of the disease. Salient features have included a summer-fall seasonality, a male predominance that may largely reflect increased exposure risk among men, and a striking absence of person-to-person spread.
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Legionnaires' Disease in Children

Pediatrics, 1981
In a retrospective survey of sera collected from 126 patients under the age of 10 years, seroreactivity was first detected at 1 year of age when the geometric mean titer rose from 12 to 24. This activity increased to a titer of 102 in the 4- to 6-year-old group and was maintained in the 7- to 9-year-old group.
R L, Muldoon, D L, Jaecker, H K, Kiefer
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Legionnaires' Disease Papers

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1979
Excerpt To the editor: My summary of the International Symposium on Legionnaires' Disease, which appeared in the 22 March 1979 issue ofThe New England Journal of Medicine, was an invited summary an...
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Treatment of Legionnaires??? Disease

Drugs, 2005
Legionnaires' disease is pneumonia, usually caused by Legionella pneumophila, which can range in severity from mild to quite severe. While it is commonly acquired in the community, it can just as easily be acquired nosocomially from water sources that have not been appropriately decontaminated.
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Myocarditis in Legionnaires' Disease

Chest, 1981
A case of Legionnaires' disease is described in which the characteristic features of multilobar pneumonia, rhabdomyolysis, renal failure, hepatic and CNS involvement are accompanied by the previously undescribed complication of myocarditis. Clinical and laboratory findings of myocardial involvement included overt heart failure, a new gallop, an ...
D, Gross, H, Willens, S M, Zeldis
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The Diagnosis of Legionnaires' Disease

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1978
Excerpt Laboratory methods to confirm the diagnosis of Legionnaires' disease are becoming more widely used, and the disease is proving to be sufficiently common so that all physicians attending pat...
T F, Tsai, D W, Fraser
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Pathology of Legionnaires' Disease

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1979
The acute lesion in Legionnaires' disease pneumonia is an acute fibrinopurulent bronchopneumonia in which the alveoli are filled with many neutrophils and macrophages and abundant fibrin. There is only slight necrosis. Although characteristic, the lesion is not specific for this agent.
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LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE

The Lancet, 1977
J H, Lawson, N R, Grist, D, Reid, T S, Wilson   +3 more
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