[Legionnaires' disease in cystic fibrosis].
A "new pneumonia" is named legionnaires' disease after a gramnegative bacillus - Legionella pneumophila, unknown until 1977. Sofar it has been observed mostly in older male patients, rarely in children and never before in Germany. The legionnaires' disease in our patient, a five and half years old boy with cystic fibrosis caused a severe dyspnea and multilobular pulmonary densifications on the chest X-ray film. The diagnosis was verified by the rise of the titer in the indirect immune fluorescence test and the success of the therapy with erythromycin.
D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003550:Cystic Fibrosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004917:Erythromycin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D007875:Legionella / Q000276:immunology; D007877:Legionnaires' Disease / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000276:immunology; D008297:Male
D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial; D004917:Erythromycin
Legionärskrankheit bei cystischer Fibrose.