Legionnaires Disease—Reordered

Monochloramine and Legionnaires' disease

egionnaires’ disease was first recognized in 1976 during an outbreak among attendees at an American Legion convention. The disease is a form of pneumonia caused by bacteria of the genus Legionella. Legionella thrives at warm temperatures (25–42oC [77–108oF]). It lives inside biofilm in aquatic environments, usually as an intracellular parasite of amoebae.1 This lifestyle protects it from disinf...

What is Legionnaires' Disease?

Spontaneous pneumothorax complicating Legionnaires' disease.

Introduction Pneumothorax as a complication of pneumonia is more likely to occur with those infections associated with cavitation and abscess formation. Presumably rupture of a pneumatocele or abscess into the pleural space is the mechanism of production of the pneumothorax. Organisms most commonly associated with this condition include Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Meyerson, 1948) and Staphyloco...

Legionnaires disease and HIV infection.

STUDY OBJECTIVES To compare the outcome of Legionnaires disease (LD) in patients with and without HIV infection. DESIGN Retrospective review of clinical charts. SETTING Six hundred-bed university hospital. PATIENTS We studied the clinical findings of 64 patients without HIV and 15 patients with HIV. Patients with a serologic diagnosis only were not included. Patients with previous immunos...

The sophistry of the term "Legionnaires' Disease".

In January 1977, the C enter for Dis­ ease Control (CDC) of the federal gov­ ernm ent announced1,2 that its scientists had isolated a bacteria-like organism that a p p e a re d to cause th e o u tb reak o f Legionnaires’ D isease. The published scientific evidence that formed the basis of this announcem ent was limited. In ad­ dition, a preliminary report has recently been transm itted by CDC (...