Legionnaires' disease. A sporadic case.
A patient with Legionnaires' disease developed consolidated pneumonia with severe hypoxemia and mental confusion; his condition improved with therapy with positive end-expiratory pressure, steroids, and chloramphenicol. The retrospective diagnosis was made by a fourfold rise in indirect fluorescent antibody titers. The chest x-ray films showed bilateral alveolar infiltrates and air bronchograms.
D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D005455:Fluorescent Antibody Technique; D006168:Guinea Pigs; D006801:Humans; D007877:Legionnaires' Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D012141:Respiratory Tract Infections / Q000175:diagnosis*