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PART 8: Infectious Diseases
SECTION 6   Diseases Caused by Gram-Negative Bacteria

147 Legionella Infections
Miguel Sabria / Victor L. Yu

Figure 147-1  Chest radiographic findings in a 52-year-old man who presented with pneumonia subsequently diagnosed as Legionnaires' disease. The patient was a cigarette smoker with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and alcoholic cardiomyopathy; he had received glucocorticoids. L. pneumophila was identified by...
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