Persistently Positive Culture Results in a Patient with Community-Acquired Pneumonia Due to Legionella pneumophila
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- 1 June 2001
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 32 (11) , 1562-1566
- https://doi.org/10.1086/320526
Abstract
We describe a patient with community-acquired pneumonia due to Legionella pneumophila serogroup 6. This patient was found to have bronchoalveolar carKeywords
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