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Severe Legionnaires' disease. [PDF]
Ann Intensive CareLegionnaires' disease (LD) is a common but under-diagnosed cause of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), although rapid detection of urine antigen testing (UAT) and advances in molecular testing have improved the diagnosis. LD entails intensive care unit (ICU) admission in almost one-third of cases, and the mortality rate ranges from 4% to 40%.
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JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1978 Description of a new infectious disease is now a rare event. When such a disease is discovered and when it is of relatively common occurrence, it justifiably generates both excitement and interest within the medical profession. Legionnaire's disease was not only newly recognized in 1976, it also presented on the medical horizon in a dramatic fashion ...
J C, Reed, R, McLelland, P, Nelson
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Legionnaires’ Disease: Update on Diagnosis and Treatment
Infectious Disease and Therapy, 2022 Legionellosis is the infection caused by bacteria of the genus Legionella, including a non-pneumonic influenza-like syndrome, and Legionnaires’ disease is a more serious illness characterized by pneumonia. Legionellosis is becoming increasingly important
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Legionnaires’ disease in the EU/EEA*: increasing trend from 2017 to 2019
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, 2023 Background The burden of Legionnaires’ disease (LD) in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) has increased during the last decade, with notification rates increasing from 1.2 to 1.4/100,000 population in 2012–16, to 1.8–2.2 within 2017–19 ...
J. Samuelsson +3 more
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Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2022 Rising incidence was associated with increasing racial disparities, geographic focus, and seasonality.
Albert E. Barskey +2 more
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Legionnaires’ disease in the time of COVID-19
Pneumonia, 2021 Due to similarities in initial disease presentation, clinicians may be inclined to repeatedly test community-acquired pneumonia cases for COVID-19 before recognizing the need to test for Legionnaires’ disease.
Kelsie Cassell +2 more
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Economic Burden of Legionnaires’ Disease, United States, 2014
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2021 Through the use of published estimates of medical costs and new calculations of productivity losses, we estimate the lifetime economic burden of 2014 Legionnaires’ disease cases in the United States at ≈$835 million.
Madeleine M. Baker-Goering +3 more
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Journal of Health and Allied Sciences NU, 2018 AbstractLegionnaires' disease is a form of atypical pneumonia caused by any type of Legionella bacteria. The bacterium is found naturally in fresh water.[4] It can contaminate hot water tanks, hot tubs, and cooling towers of large air conditioners.[4] It is usually spread by breathing in mist that contains the bacteria.[4] It can also occur when ...
K.R. Sandeep, B.S. Sandhya Rani
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Legionnaires' Disease: State of the Art Knowledge of Pathogenesis Mechanisms of Legionella.
Annual Review of Pathology, 2020 Legionella species are environmental gram-negative bacteria able to cause a severe form of pneumonia in humans known as Legionnaires' disease. Since the identification of Legionella pneumophila in 1977, four decades of research on Legionella biology and ...
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Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, 2020 In July 2018, a large outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease (LD) caused by Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 (Lp1) occurred in Bresso, Italy. Fifty-two cases were diagnosed, including five deaths. We performed an epidemiological investigation and prepared a
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