"Legionnaires' Disease" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An acute, sometimes fatal, pneumonia-like bacterial infection characterized by high fever, malaise, muscle aches, respiratory disorders and headache. It is named for an outbreak at the 1976 Philadelphia convention of the American Legion.
| Descriptor ID |
D007877
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C01.252.400.500.501 C08.730.382.380
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| Concept/Terms |
Legionnaires' Disease- Legionnaires' Disease
- Disease, Legionnaires'
- Legionnaire's Disease
- Legionnaires Disease
- Legionella pneumophila Infections
- Infections, Legionella pneumophila
- Infection, Legionella pneumophila
- Legionella pneumophila Infection
- Legionnaire Disease
- Disease, Legionnaire
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| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Legionnaires' Disease" by people in Profiles.
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Priest PC, Slow S, Chambers ST, Cameron CM, Balm MN, Beale MW, Blackmore TK, Burns AD, Drinkovic D, Elvy JA, Everts RJ, Hammer DA, Huggan PJ, Mansell CJ, Raeder VM, Roberts SA, Robinson MC, Sathyendran V, Taylor SL, Thompson AW, Ussher JE, van der Linden AJ, Williams MJ, Podmore RG, Anderson TP, Barratt K, Mitchell JL, Harte DJ, Hope VT, Murdoch DR. The burden of Legionnaires' disease in New Zealand (LegiNZ): a national surveillance study. Lancet Infect Dis. 2019 07; 19(7):770-777.
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Halperin JJ. Nervous System Abnormalities and Legionnaire's Disease. Infect Dis Clin North Am. 2017 03; 31(1):55-68.
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Taylor AJ, Rupard EJ. A 38-year-old staff sergeant with fevers, chest pain, and shortness of breath. Mil Med. 2001 Oct; 166(10):909-12.
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Schlossberg D, Bonoan J. Legionella and immunosuppression. Semin Respir Infect. 1998 Jun; 13(2):128-31.
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Singh N, Gayowski T, Wagener M, Marino IR, Yu VL. Pulmonary infections in liver transplant recipients receiving tacrolimus. Changing pattern of microbial etiologies. Transplantation. 1996 Feb 15; 61(3):396-401.
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Reinhardt J. Legionnaires' disease. Del Med J. 1991 Jun; 63(6):351-7.
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Wetherill SF, Jaffee WL, Kestner JF, Bentsen C. Medical grand rounds: a fatal case of pneumonia. Del Med J. 1985 Feb; 57(2):79-84.
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Sharrar RG, Friedman HM, Miller WT, Yanak MJ, Abrutyn E. Summertime pneumonias in Philadelphia in 1976. An epidemiologic study. Ann Intern Med. 1979 Apr; 90(4):577-80.
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Fraser DW, Tsai TR, Orenstein W, Parkin WE, Beecham HJ, Sharrar RG, Harris J, Mallison GF, Martin SM, McDade JE, Shepard CC, Brachman PS. Legionnaires' disease: description of an epidemic of pneumonia. N Engl J Med. 1977 Dec 01; 297(22):1189-97.