Legionnaires' Disease in a Renal-Transplant Program

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To the Editor: In July, 1976, the dramatic development of a febrile illness with respiratory symptoms and a 16 per cent mortality in members of an American Legion Convention in Philadelphia and the subsequent isolation by the Center for Disease Control of a previously undescribed bacillus established a new disease having national interest.1 , 2 Eight months later we completed a new Veterans Administration Hospital in Los Angeles, and the first renal transplantations were carried out in April, 1977.Between April, 1977, and January, 1978, 11 renal transplantations were done, 10 from cadaveric donors and one from a living donor. The average . . .

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