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Sporadic Legionnaires' Disease

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1978
The first case of Legionnaires' disease recognized in Pennsylvania since the Philadelphia epidemic of 1976 was that of a 53-year-old emphysematous man who had extensive unilateral pneumonia accompanied by high fever, hypoxemia, and disorientation.
Frederick L. Jones, John J. Dennehy, H. James Beecham   +2 more
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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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Myelosuppression in Legionnaires' Disease

Archives of Internal Medicine, 1982
A patient undergoing examination for moderately severe renal insufficiency had fulminant five-lobed pneumonia caused by Legionella pneumophila. Her clinical course was complicated by granulocytopenia. Bone marrow aspiration showed notable inhibition of myelopoiesis, involving all stages of maturation. The presence of a serum inhibitor of granulopoiesis
Sean R. Lynch, Chan H. Park, Bruce E. Johnson   +2 more
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Legionnaire's Disease and Influenza

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, 2017
Legionella pneumophila and influenza types A and B viruses can cause either community-acquired pneumonia with respiratory failure, or Legionella infection could attribute to influenza infection with potentially fatal prognosis. Copathogenesis between pandemic influenza and bacteria is characterized by complex interactions between coinfecting pathogens ...
Sryros Zakynthinos, Eleni Magira
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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 and the Traveller

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1979
Respiratory illness occurred in members of a "package tour" to Benidorm, Spain, in 1973. Three of the tourists died with similar pneumonic illnesses, and 86 other travellers who had stayed at the same hotel also had respiratory illnesses. After the organism associated with the epidemic of Legionnaires' disease in Philadelphia 3 years later was ...
R. Najera, N. R. Grist, D. Reid
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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...
David W. Fraser, Theodore F. Tsai
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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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Legionnaire’s Disease

Therapeutische Umschau, 2001
Legionellen sind Wasserkeime und können zwei typische Krankheitsbilder auslösen: Das Pontiac-Fieber und die Legionärskrankheit. Letztere ist eine seltene (3–7%), potentiell lebensbedrohliche Pneumonie. In fast allen Fällen ist Legionella pneumophila Serogruppe I für die Pneumonie verantwortlich. Es gibt aber 42 Arten und 64 Serotypen, wobei Legionella
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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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