Exercise Testing Early after Myocardial Infarction

COMMUNICATIONS TO THE EDITOR 713 Saravolatz and co-workers2 documented the lower levels of erythromycin while treating patients with Legionnaires’ disease with oral erythromycin and one of their patients developed Legionnaires’ disease ( LD) while receiving oral erythromycin. Among the antibiotics, rifampin has been shown in vitro to be more active than erythromycin against the LD bacterium. One should consider its use along with erythromycin in those patients not responding satisfactorily to erythromycin or when pulmonary abscesses are present.”2 Saravolatz and co workers2 also showed that the LD bacterium could be found in sputum and bronchial washings by fluorescent antibody examination. This mode of diagnosis may be useful for early detection of Legionnaires’ disease.