Legionnaires' disease

Legionnaires' disease: Introduction

Legionnaires' disease: Legionnaires' disease, which is also known as Legionellosis, is a form of pneumonia. It is often called Legionnaires' disease because the first known outbreak ... more about Legionnaires' disease.

Legionnaires' disease: A severe respiratory disease which is caused by the Legionella pneumophila bacteria. The condition can result in pneumonia and can be life-threatening. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Legionnaires' disease is available below.

Symptoms of Legionnaires' disease

• No symptoms - many people are not affected by the disease
• Flu-like symptoms
• Fever
• Chills
• Productive or non-productive cough
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Legionnaires' disease: Complications

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• Pneumonia
• Kidney problems
• Chest pains
• Pleurisy
• Death
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Medical Textbooks Online about Legionnaires' disease

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Diagnostic Tests for Legionnaires' disease

• Sputum culture
• Blood antibody test
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Wrongly Diagnosed with Legionnaires' disease?

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Causes of Legionnaires' disease

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Treatments for Legionnaires' disease

• Hospitalization
• Antibiotics
• Intravenous antibiotics
• Erythromycin
• Erythromycin and rifampin - for immunocompromised patients
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Latest Treatments for Legionnaires' disease

• Azithromycin
• Clarithromycin
• Levofloxacin
• Ciprofloxacin
• Rifampin
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Evidence Based Medicine Research for Legionnaires' disease

Medical research articles related to Legionnaires' disease include:

• Guidelines for preventing health-care--associated pneumonia, 2003: recommendations of CDC and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee.
• Epidemiology of invasive group B streptococcal disease in the United States, 1999-2005.
• Comparison of annual and biannual mass antibiotic administration for elimination of infectious trachoma.
• Ccdc
• Rifampicin
• Consultant in Communicable Disease Control
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Prognosis for Legionnaires' disease

Prognosis for Legionnaires' disease: Although Legionnaires' disease has a mortality rate of 5 to 15 percent, many people may be infected with the bacterium that causes the disease, yet not develop any symptoms. (Source: excerpt from Legionnaires' Disease: NIEHS_1)

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Statistics for Legionnaires' disease

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Legionnaires' disease: Broader Related Topics

• Bacterial diseases
• Pneumonia
• Nosocomial infections
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Types of Legionnaires' disease

Types of Legionnaires' disease

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Article Excerpts about Legionnaires' disease

Legionnaires' disease, which is also known as Legionellosis, is a form of pneumonia. It is often called Legionnaires' disease because the first known outbreak occurred in the Bellevue Stratford Hotel that was hosting a convention of the Pennsylvania Department of the American Legion. In that outbreak, approximately 221 people contracted this previously unknown type of bacterial pneumonia, and 34 people died. The source of the bacterium was found to be contaminated water used to cool the air in the hotel's air conditioning system. (Source: excerpt from Legionnaires' Disease: NIEHS_1)

Definitions of Legionnaires' disease:

A species of gram-negative, aerobic bacteria that is the causative agent of LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE. It has been isolated from numerous environmental sites as well as from human lung tissue, respiratory secretions, and blood. - (Source - Diseases Database)

Acute (sometimes fatal) lobar pneumonia caused by bacteria of a kind first recognized after an outbreak of the disease at an American Legion convention in Philadelphia in 1976; characterized by fever and muscle and chest pain and headache and chills and a dry cough - (Source - WordNet 2.1)

Ophanet, a consortium of European partners, currently defines a condition rare when it affects 1 person per 2,000. They list Legionnaires' disease as a "rare disease".
Source - Orphanet