Legionnaires' Disease—Still with Us

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A dramatic outbreak of pneumonia (182 cases with 29 deaths) in Philadelphia in July 1976 was recognized ultimately as a discrete entity that became known as legionnaires' disease. The announcement by the Centers for Disease Control the following January that the etiologic agent of this disease had been identified as a bacterium came as a big surprise, since conventional bacteriologic techniques and many other studies had failed to yield a cause. Many had believed that essentially all bacterial pathogens had already been discovered and that techniques for their isolation and identification were readily available. Legionella was finally isolated through techniques . . .

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