Nosocomial Legionnaire's disease--a case report and review of the literature

Korean J Intern Med. 1992 Jan;7(1):68-72. doi: 10.3904/kjim.1992.7.1.68.

Abstract

We report a case of nosocomial legionellosis in a 63 year-old man who was managed with neurosurgery under the diagnosis of subarachnoidal hemorrhage and complicated pneumonia in the intensive care unit. A legionella species was reported from sputum culture and direct immunofluorescent antibody test revealed L. pneumophila (serogroup 2). Our patient's pneumonia was cured with medical therapy including erythromycin and was the first case of microbiologically confirmed legionellosis in Korea.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Cross Infection / diagnosis*
  • Cross Infection / epidemiology
  • Humans
  • Korea / epidemiology
  • Legionnaires' Disease / diagnosis*
  • Legionnaires' Disease / epidemiology
  • Male
  • Middle Aged