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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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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 |
author_facet | 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. |
spellingShingle | Internal Medicine Kao, Andrew S Myer, Stephanie Wickrama, Madappuli Ismail, Rana Hettiarachchi, Malitha 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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