Severe Pneumonia Caused by Legionella pneumophila: Differential Diagnosis and Therapeutic Considerations

Severe legionella pneumonia poses a diagnostic challenge and requires early intervention. Legionnaire's disease can have several presenting signs, symptoms, and laboratory abnormalities that suggest that Legionella pneumophila is the pathogen, but none of these are sufficient to distinguish L p...

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Autores principales: Chahin, Abdullah, Opal, Steven M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7135102/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28159171
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idc.2016.10.009
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description Severe legionella pneumonia poses a diagnostic challenge and requires early intervention. Legionnaire's disease can have several presenting signs, symptoms, and laboratory abnormalities that suggest that Legionella pneumophila is the pathogen, but none of these are sufficient to distinguish L pneumophila pneumonia from other respiratory pathogens. L pneumophila is primarily an intracellular pathogen and needs treatment with antibiotics that efficiently enter the intracellular space.
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spelling pubmed-71351022020-04-08 Severe Pneumonia Caused by Legionella pneumophila: Differential Diagnosis and Therapeutic Considerations Chahin, Abdullah Opal, Steven M. Infect Dis Clin North Am Article Severe legionella pneumonia poses a diagnostic challenge and requires early intervention. Legionnaire's disease can have several presenting signs, symptoms, and laboratory abnormalities that suggest that Legionella pneumophila is the pathogen, but none of these are sufficient to distinguish L pneumophila pneumonia from other respiratory pathogens. L pneumophila is primarily an intracellular pathogen and needs treatment with antibiotics that efficiently enter the intracellular space. Elsevier Inc. 2017-03 2017-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7135102/ /pubmed/28159171 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idc.2016.10.009 Text en © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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