Legionellosis
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Legionnaire's disease continues to be a major cause of community-acquired pneumonia. The disease was named after an outbreak of pneumonia in delegates to an American Legion convention in 1976. Smoking, chronic lung disease, immunosuppression and surgery are risk factors. It is contracted by inhaling aerosols or drinking water contaminated with the bacterium Legionella pneumophila. Symptoms include cough, fever, malaise, muscle pain and headache. The diagnosis depends on culturing the bacterium from blood but there are also effective diagnostic tests. Erythromycin, azithromycin and quinolones are the most effective antibiotics.
Publication Name: The New England Journal of Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0028-4793
Year: 1997
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A medical mystery - concentric calcification
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An elderly man reported having recurrent hematuria over a period of two years underwent transurethral resection of the prostate because of being prostatic hypertrophy in 2004-2006. Multiple urinalyses yielded only 'contaminants' and the diagnosis is still a mystery.
Publication Name: The New England Journal of Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0028-4793
Year: 2006
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