A Culture-Proven Case of Community-Acquired Legionella Pneumonia Apparently Classified as Nosocomial : Diagnostic and Public Health Implications
Joint Authors
Ferranti, Greta
Marchegiano, Patrizia
Bargellini, Annalisa
Richeldi, Luca
Cagarelli, Roberto
Marchesi, Isabella
Borella, Paola
Source
Issue
Vol. 2013, Issue 2013 (31 Dec. 2013), pp.1-4, 4 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2013-02-11
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
4
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
We report a case of Legionella pneumonia in a 78-year-old patient affected by cerebellar haemangioblastoma continuously hospitalised for 24 days prior to the onset of overt symptoms.
According to the established case definition, this woman should have been definitely classified as a nosocomial case (patient spending all of the ten days in hospital before onset of symptoms).
Water samples from the oncology ward were negative, notably the patient’s room and the oxygen bubbler, and the revision of the case history induced us to verify possible contamination in water samples collected at home.
We found that the clinical strain had identical rep-PCR fingerprint of L.
pneumophila serogroup 1 isolated at home.
The description of this culture-proven case of Legionnaires’ disease has major clinical, legal, and public health consequences as the complexity of hospitalised patients poses limitations to the rule-of-thumb surveillance definition of nosocomial pneumonia based on 2–10-day incubation period.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Bargellini, Annalisa& Marchesi, Isabella& Marchegiano, Patrizia& Richeldi, Luca& Cagarelli, Roberto& Ferranti, Greta…[et al.]. 2013. A Culture-Proven Case of Community-Acquired Legionella Pneumonia Apparently Classified as Nosocomial : Diagnostic and Public Health Implications. Case Reports in Medicine،Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-4.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Bargellini, Annalisa…[et al.]. A Culture-Proven Case of Community-Acquired Legionella Pneumonia Apparently Classified as Nosocomial : Diagnostic and Public Health Implications. Case Reports in Medicine No. 2013 (2013), pp.1-4.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-461810
American Medical Association (AMA)
Bargellini, Annalisa& Marchesi, Isabella& Marchegiano, Patrizia& Richeldi, Luca& Cagarelli, Roberto& Ferranti, Greta…[et al.]. A Culture-Proven Case of Community-Acquired Legionella Pneumonia Apparently Classified as Nosocomial : Diagnostic and Public Health Implications. Case Reports in Medicine. 2013. Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-4.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-461810
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-461810