The authors report a case of legionnaires' disease with retractile late sequelae affecting the lingula and the dorsal segment of the culmen. They stress the need for appropriate and prolonged treatment because of the possible presence of intracellular Legionella pneumophila. The existence of an associated staphylococcal infection is also one of the hypotheses raised in explaining such sequelae.
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J Water Health
December 2024
Laboklin GmbH & Co KG, Steubenstraße 4, 97688 Bad Kissingen, Germany.
Antimicrobial resistance is an emerging problem in hospitals and long-term healthcare facilities. Early detection of susceptibility pattern changes in pathogenic bacteria can prevent treatment failures. Therefore, this study chose to investigate the antibiotic susceptibility situation of isolates from hospitals and long-term healthcare facilities in Southern Germany.
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December 2024
Environmental Science, Policy and Research Institute, 144 Narberth Ave, Box 407, Narberth, PA 19072, USA.
is different from traditional drinking water contaminants because it presents a latent public health risk for public and private drinking water systems and for the building water systems they supply. This paper reviews information on the likelihood of occurrence of in public water systems to lay a foundation for public water systems, as a stakeholder in public health risk management, to better manage . Important to this approach is a literature review to identify conditions that could potentially promote being present in drinking water systems at either an elevated abundance or at an increased frequency of occurrence, and/or water quality and supply conditions that would contribute to its amplification.
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December 2024
Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Understanding the temporal relationship between key events in an individual's infection history is crucial for disease control. Delay data between events, such as infection and symptom onset times, is doubly censored because the exact time at which these key events occur is generally unknown. Current mathematical models for delay distributions are derived from heuristic justifications.
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November 2024
Nephrology, Kanazawa Medical University, Kahoku, JPN.
Legionnaires' disease is a bacterial infection caused by , such as . It mainly causes severe pneumonia, with symptoms such as fever, cough, and shortness of breath. In rare cases, it can cause acute kidney disease and also occasionally become severe enough to require replacement therapy.
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December 2024
Klinik für Innere Medizin, Rheumatologie, Pneumologie, Nephrologie und Diabetologie, medius Klinik Kirchheim, Kirchheim unter Teck, Deutschland.
A 48-year-old male patient was admitted to hospital with Legionella pneumonia. He developed a splenic rupture 1 day after admission, which was surgically treated. Retrospectively, the splenomegaly could already be seen by sonography on admission.
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