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Multidisciplinary Management of Legionella Disease in Immunocompromised Patients

Legionella pneumonia is a gram-negative bacterial infection commonly associated with aerosol transmission from contaminated water sources. Impaired immunity leads to delayed clearance of infection and further predisposes individuals with Legionella pneumonia at risk of developing complications. We p...

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Autores principales: Kao, Andrew S, Myer, Stephanie, Wickrama, Madappuli, Ismail, Rana, Hettiarachchi, Malitha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8638927/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34873543
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19214
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author Kao, Andrew S
Myer, Stephanie
Wickrama, Madappuli
Ismail, Rana
Hettiarachchi, Malitha
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description Legionella pneumonia is a gram-negative bacterial infection commonly associated with aerosol transmission from contaminated water sources. Impaired immunity leads to delayed clearance of infection and further predisposes individuals with Legionella pneumonia at risk of developing complications. We present a case report on a renal transplant patient with comorbid cardiac and renal dysfunction who developed community-acquired Legionella pneumonia. The case emphasizes the importance of adopting a multidisciplinary approach when managing Legionella infection in patients with multiple comorbidities and immunosuppressive states.
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spelling pubmed-86389272021-12-05 Multidisciplinary Management of Legionella Disease in Immunocompromised Patients Kao, Andrew S Myer, Stephanie Wickrama, Madappuli Ismail, Rana Hettiarachchi, Malitha Cureus Internal Medicine Legionella pneumonia is a gram-negative bacterial infection commonly associated with aerosol transmission from contaminated water sources. Impaired immunity leads to delayed clearance of infection and further predisposes individuals with Legionella pneumonia at risk of developing complications. We present a case report on a renal transplant patient with comorbid cardiac and renal dysfunction who developed community-acquired Legionella pneumonia. The case emphasizes the importance of adopting a multidisciplinary approach when managing Legionella infection in patients with multiple comorbidities and immunosuppressive states. Cureus 2021-11-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8638927/ /pubmed/34873543 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19214 Text en Copyright © 2021, Kao 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.
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Kao, Andrew S
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Multidisciplinary Management of Legionella Disease in Immunocompromised Patients
title Multidisciplinary Management of Legionella Disease in Immunocompromised Patients
title_full Multidisciplinary Management of Legionella Disease in Immunocompromised Patients
title_fullStr Multidisciplinary Management of Legionella Disease in Immunocompromised Patients
title_full_unstemmed Multidisciplinary Management of Legionella Disease in Immunocompromised Patients
title_short Multidisciplinary Management of Legionella Disease in Immunocompromised Patients
title_sort multidisciplinary management of legionella disease in immunocompromised patients
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8638927/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34873543
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19214
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