A Case of Legionnaires’ Disease Manifesting as Heat Exhaustion

A 69-year-old male with a history of prior admissions of heat exhaustion presented with non-specific symptoms including fatigue, diarrhea, and dehydration. The workup revealed a positive legionella urine antigen. He was treated with levofloxacin with symptom resolution within 48 hours.

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Autores principales: Malik, Muhammad Ahmed, Shaukat, Fahd, Malik, Aqsa, Kaifee, Syeda, Eid, Mohamed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10023067/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36938252
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.35099
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spelling pubmed-100230672023-03-18 A Case of Legionnaires’ Disease Manifesting as Heat Exhaustion Malik, Muhammad Ahmed Shaukat, Fahd Malik, Aqsa Kaifee, Syeda Eid, Mohamed Cureus Internal Medicine A 69-year-old male with a history of prior admissions of heat exhaustion presented with non-specific symptoms including fatigue, diarrhea, and dehydration. The workup revealed a positive legionella urine antigen. He was treated with levofloxacin with symptom resolution within 48 hours. Cureus 2023-02-17 /pmc/articles/PMC10023067/ /pubmed/36938252 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.35099 Text en Copyright © 2023, Malik et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Internal Medicine
Malik, Muhammad Ahmed
Shaukat, Fahd
Malik, Aqsa
Kaifee, Syeda
Eid, Mohamed
A Case of Legionnaires’ Disease Manifesting as Heat Exhaustion
title A Case of Legionnaires’ Disease Manifesting as Heat Exhaustion
title_full A Case of Legionnaires’ Disease Manifesting as Heat Exhaustion
title_fullStr A Case of Legionnaires’ Disease Manifesting as Heat Exhaustion
title_full_unstemmed A Case of Legionnaires’ Disease Manifesting as Heat Exhaustion
title_short A Case of Legionnaires’ Disease Manifesting as Heat Exhaustion
title_sort case of legionnaires’ disease manifesting as heat exhaustion
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10023067/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36938252
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.35099
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