Legionnaires' disease in cystic fibrosis

A "new pneumonia" is named legionnaires' disease after a gramnegative bacillus - Legionella pneumophila, unknown until 1977. Sofar it has been observed mostly in older male patients, rarely in children and never before in Germany. The legionnaires' disease in our patient, a five...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Monatsschrift Kinderheilkunde 1984-05, Vol.132 (5), p.296-298
Hauptverfasser:	Witte, A, Primavesi, C A
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	ger
Schlagworte:	Antibodies, Bacterial - analysis Child, Preschool Cystic Fibrosis - complications Cystic Fibrosis - diagnosis Diagnosis, Differential Erythromycin - therapeutic use Humans Legionella - immunology Legionnaires' Disease - diagnosis Legionnaires' Disease - etiology Legionnaires' Disease - immunology Male
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Zusammenfassung:	A "new pneumonia" is named legionnaires' disease after a gramnegative bacillus - Legionella pneumophila, unknown until 1977. Sofar it has been observed mostly in older male patients, rarely in children and never before in Germany. The legionnaires' disease in our patient, a five and half years old boy with cystic fibrosis caused a severe dyspnea and multilobular pulmonary densifications on the chest X-ray film. The diagnosis was verified by the rise of the titer in the indirect immune fluorescence test and the success of the therapy with erythromycin.
ISSN:	0026-9298