AC ENGLAND III, DW FRASER, BD … - Annals of Internal …, 1981 - Am Coll Physicians As of 30 September 1979, 1005 confirmed cases of sporadic legionellosis caused by Legionella
pneumophila serogroups 1 to 4 in US residents had been reported to the Centers for Disease
Control; 19% were fatal. All but 2% of the 1005 cases were associated with pneumonia ... Cited by 114 - Related articles - All 2 versions
AC England III, DW Fraser - The American Journal of Medicine, 1981 - Elsevier As of April 30, 1980, 83 nosocomial cases of sporadic legionellosis had been reported to the
Centers for Disease Control (CDC). In all 83 cases the patients had pneumonia; the median
age of the patients was 56.5 years. All but one patient were hospitalized at the time of ... Cited by 45 - Related articles - All 4 versions
DW GUMP, RO FRANK, WC WINN Jr, RS … - Annals of Internal …, 1979 - Am Coll Physicians Of nine patients with Legionnaires' disease, seven were receiving corticosteroids, and all nine
had serious underlying diseases. Direct immunofluorescent examination of respiratory
secretions, including sputum and transtracheal aspirates, showed the Legionnaires' ... Cited by 66 - Related articles - All 2 versions
G Storch, WB Baine, DW Fraser, CV BROOME, … - Ann Intern …, 1979 - legionella.kayabek.net Sporadic Community-Acquired Legionnaires' Disease in the United States A Case-Control Study
GREGORY STORCH, MD; WILLIAM В. BAINE, MD; DAVID W. FRASER, MD.; CLAIRE V.
BROOME, MD; HERBERT W. CLEGG II, MD; MITCHELL L. COHEN, MD; STELLA AJ ... Cited by 52 - Related articles - All 3 versions
PH Edelstein - Seminars in respiratory infections, 1987 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Legionnaires' disease can be diagnosed by culture, by direct detection of the bacterium or its
products by using immunologic means, with a DNA probe, and by serologic means. Culture diagnosis
is the most specific and sensitive test. Legionellae can be isolated from sputum samples ... Cited by 144 - Related articles - All 3 versions
CV BROOME, SAJ GOINGS, SB THACKER, … - Annals of Internal …, 1979 - Am Coll Physicians Sixty-nine laboratory-documented cases of Legionnaires' disease occurred in Vermont between
1 May and 31 December 1977. Clinical manifestations were similar to those in the 1976 Philadelphia
epidemic. Case-control studies suggested that Legionnaires' disease patients were more ... Cited by 46 - Related articles - All 3 versions
JW Kugler, JO Armitage, CM Helms, LW Klassen, … - The American Journal of …, 1983 - Elsevier Nosocomial pneumonia caused by Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 occurred in five patients
after bone marrow transplantation for hematologic malignancies. Two patients died as a result
of the infection despite treatment with erythromycin. Serologic screening revealed no ... Cited by 51 - Related articles - All 2 versions
CM HELMS, JP VINER, DD WEISENBURGER … - The American journal …, 1984 - journals.lww.com The mean age of patients was 51.4 years and males out-numbered females 2.5:1.0. Thirty-one
percent of patients were receiving corticosteroid, immunosuppressive, or anti-neoplastic chemotherapy
when illness began. Immunosuppression at onset of illness was more common in ... Cited by 16 - Related articles - All 3 versions
PH Edelstein - Clinical Infectious Diseases, 1993 - jstor.org From the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and the Department of
Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ...
Legionnaires' disease was recognized as a cause of epi- ... Legionnaires' disease was ... Cited by 191 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 10 versions
