Legionnaires' disease: a clinical description of thirteen cases.
We describe 13 patients with legionnaires' disease in Nottingham, all presenting with lobar pneumonia. Six patients required artificial ventilation and 2 died. No common source of infection has yet been identified, but the disease appears to be prevalent and possibly endemic in this city.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007385:Intermittent Positive-Pressure Ventilation; D007877:Legionnaires' Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011018:Pneumonia, Pneumococcal / Q000209:etiology; D011859:Radiography