Legionellosis in infants

✍ Scribed by D. Fumarola; I. Munno; L. Longo-Papadia

• Book ID: 104644784
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 111 KB
• Volume: 4
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0393-2990
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00152707

✦ Synopsis

Pneumonia a n d / o r multisystemic disorders caused by Legionella pneumophiIa and related organisms are recognized as an i m p o r t a n t infection in the adult population. However, t h i s , new ,, agent of disease has not been as thoroughly studied in young people as it has in the middle-aged and elderly. Nevertheless Legionellosis is being recognized m o r e frequently both in immunologically intact infants : the recent literature contains very interesting observations (2, 8, 9, 10,