Prevalence of Pneumonia due toLegionella pneumophilaandMycoplasma pneumoniaein a Population Admitted to a Department of Internal Medicine
作者:
M. Bozzoni,
L. Radice,
A. Frosi,
S. Vezzoli,
A. Cuboni,
F. Vezzoli,
期刊:
Respiration
(Karger Available online 1995)
卷期:
Volume 62,
issue 6
页码: 331-335
ISSN:0025-7931
年代: 1995
DOI:10.1159/000196475
出版商: S. Karger AG
关键词: Legionella pneumophila;Mycoplasma pneumoniae;Pneumonia;Nosocomial;Community acquired;Clinical relationship
数据来源: Karger
摘要:
We studied 177 patients with pneumonia admitted to an internal medicine department over a period of 3 years to determine the incidence of two emerging pathogens, Legionellapneumophilaand Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Clinical, radiological and laboratory tests were performed and included blood cultures, serology, gram staining and sputum cultures. L.pneumophila was the agent involved in 9 patients (5.1%) and M. pneumoniae in 12 (6.8%). These prevalences were about in the middle of the range of previously published figures. Legionella pneumonia is a rare illness, which even in the absence of suggestive clinical signs must be considered because of its possibly serious course and to allow appropriate therapeutic decisions to be made.
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