A case of nosocomial Legionella pneumophila pneumonia.
We report a case of Legionella pneumophila pneumonia in a patient with interstitial lung disease. Intensive environmental investigations revealed that a system of all-day-running bathwater was the source of infection. In this case, the concentration of L. pneumophila in the hospital bathwater was low. We therefore emphasize that even a low concentration of L. pneumophila in environmental water can cause serious infections to immunocompromised patients in a hospital.
Torii
Keizo
K
Department of Bacteriology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Nagoya, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan.
Iinuma
Yoshitsugu
Y
Ichikawa
Motoshi
M
Kato
Keisuke
K
Koide
Michio
M
Baba
Hisashi
H
Suzuki
Ryujiro
R
Ohta
Michio
M
D000368:Aged; D001494:Baths; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016952:Legionella pneumophila / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification; D007877:Legionnaires' Disease / Q000209:etiology*; D014871:Water Microbiology