Add Legionella to Your Differential Diagnosis for Pneumonia
Don ' t forget to consider Legionella as a cause of hospital-acquired pneumonia. It ' s more common and deadlier than some may realize. (Source: Medscape Emergency Medicine Podcast)
Source: Medscape Emergency Medicine Podcast - August 14, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
Add Legionella to Your Differential Diagnosis for Pneumonia
Don ' t forget to consider Legionella as a cause of hospital-acquired pneumonia. It ' s more common and deadlier than some may realize. (Source: Medscape Infectious Disease Podcast)
Source: Medscape Infectious Disease Podcast - August 14, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
Legionella pneumophila Pneumonia: Not Your Father's Pontiac Fever
Dr. John Bartlett discusses the article "Community-Acquired Legionella pneumophila Pneumonia: A Single-Center Experience With 214 Hospitalized Sporadic Cases Over 15 Years" from the January 2013 issue. He talks about the bounty of Spanish bacterial studies and the fascinating bug that is Legionella pneumophila. (Why would the same bug that causes lethal pneumonia in one patient cause milder flu-like Pontiac fever in another?) (Source: Medicine - Stories in Medicine)
Source: Medicine - Stories in Medicine - July 3, 2013 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: podcasts
