Legionnaires’ disease is a serious type of pneumonia you get when Legionella bacteria infect your lungs
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The severity of pneumonia can range from mild to life-threatening, with uncomplicated disease resolving with outpatient antibiotics and complicated cases progressing to septic shock, acute
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Legionella infection can also cause Pontiac fever, a nonspecific febrile illness typically identified during outbreaks
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Macrolides and respiratory fluoroquinolones remain the antibiotics of choice for treatment of Legionella; however
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The cause of Legionella disease is Legionella bacteria, which lives in water and soil
epidermidis, thus usage depends on local susceptibility data Enterococci has two main species - Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium; the antibiotics listed are active against E
Data sources: A search of MEDLINE and Ovid databases was conducted (January 1970-May 2011) using the search terms Legionella pneumophila, pneumonia, Legionnaires' disease, rifampin or rifampicin
pneumophila, 34 species of legionella have been identified, mostly from immunocompromised patients with pneumonia
Pontiac fever usually clears on its own, but untreated Legionnaires' disease can be fatal
Although extremely rare, Legionella can also cause extrapulmonary The usual dose of Levofloxacin Oral Solution is 250 mg, 500 mg, or 750 mg administered orally every 24 hours, as indicated by infection and described in Table 1
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This is the largest antibiotic study of patients with Legionella-induced CAP ever published
Fluoroquinolones are the most active drugs against Legionella in intracellular and animal models, achieving high intracellular levels and low MICs