A case of legionellesis pneumonia verified by isolation of legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 from bronchoalveolar lavage treated with levofloxacine and tigecycline

A case of legionellesis pneumonia verified by isolation of legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 from bronchoalveolar lavage treated with levofloxacine and tigecycline

A male patient received non-chemotherapeutic drugs which induced deep neutropenia complicated with sepsis, bilateral pneumonia, acute respiratory insufficiency. Artificial pulmonary ventilation was applied. The examination of bronchoalveolar lavage showed the presence of the culture L. pneumophila (...

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Main Authors: Gennadiy Martinovich Galstyan, Mikhail Yur'evich Drokov, Svetlana Aleksandrovna Katrysh, Galina Aleksandrovna Klyasova, Elena Aleksandrovna Gilyazitdinova, Tat'yana Igorevna Karpova, Boris Ivanovich Marakusha, Igor' Semenovich Tartakovskiy, G M Galstyan, M Yu Drokov, S A Katrysh, G A Klyasova, E A Gilyazitdinova, T I Karpova, B I Marakusha, I S Tartakovsky
Format: Article
Language:Russian
Published: "Consilium Medicum" Publishing house 2011-07-01
Series:Терапевтический архив
Subjects:
legionella
pneumonia
tigecycline
neutropenia
pulmonary abscess
artificial lung ventilation
Online Access:https://ter-arkhiv.ru/0040-3660/article/view/30895

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