Nosocomial Legionnaire’s Disease: – A Case Report and Review of the Literature –

We report a case of nosocomial legionellosis in a 63 year-old man who was managed with neurosurgery under the diagnosis of subarachnoidal hemorrhage and complicated pneumonia in the intensive care unit. A legionella species was reported from sputum culture and direct immunofluorescent antibody test...

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Autores principales: Woo, Jun Hee, Kim, Shin Ae, Park, Choon Sik, Choi, Tai Youn, Chang, Ik Chin, Lee, In Soo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Association of Internal Medicine 1992
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4532100/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1477034
http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.1992.7.1.68
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author Woo, Jun Hee
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Park, Choon Sik
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description We report a case of nosocomial legionellosis in a 63 year-old man who was managed with neurosurgery under the diagnosis of subarachnoidal hemorrhage and complicated pneumonia in the intensive care unit. A legionella species was reported from sputum culture and direct immunofluorescent antibody test revealed L. pneumophila (serogroup 2). Our patient’s pneumonia was cured with medical therapy including erythromycin and was the first case of microbiologically confirmed legionellosis in Korea.
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spelling pubmed-45321002015-10-02 Nosocomial Legionnaire’s Disease: – A Case Report and Review of the Literature – Woo, Jun Hee Kim, Shin Ae Park, Choon Sik Choi, Tai Youn Chang, Ik Chin Lee, In Soo Korean J Intern Med Articles We report a case of nosocomial legionellosis in a 63 year-old man who was managed with neurosurgery under the diagnosis of subarachnoidal hemorrhage and complicated pneumonia in the intensive care unit. A legionella species was reported from sputum culture and direct immunofluorescent antibody test revealed L. pneumophila (serogroup 2). Our patient’s pneumonia was cured with medical therapy including erythromycin and was the first case of microbiologically confirmed legionellosis in Korea. Korean Association of Internal Medicine 1992-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4532100/ /pubmed/1477034 http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.1992.7.1.68 Text en Copyright © 1992 The Korean Association of Internal Medicine This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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