CONCURRENT LEGIONNAIRES-DISEASE AND ACTIVE PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier
- Vol. 125 (6) , 759-761
- https://doi.org/10.1164/arrd.1982.125.6.759
Abstract
A 68-yr-old man was admitted to the hospital with severe Legionnaires'' disease, which was serologically confirmed by a 6-fold-increase in antibody titers to Legionella pneumophila, serogroup 1. The patient improved dramatically with i.v. erythromycin therapy but was discharged from the hospital with residual debility and pulmonary complaints later recognized as being caused by active pulmonary tuberculosis. Diagnostic and therapeutic confusion engendered by the concurrence of these pulmonary infections is discussed.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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